The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally str…

- Michael Lind

For realists, war is like surgery-a painful and dangerous activity that is sometimes necessary ... A pacifist is like a Christian Scientist who is ag…

- Michael Lind

Libertarianism and communism are equally crazy in opposite ways. Libertarians believe that it is possible to privatize everything without anarchy, wh…

- Michael Lind

Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil…

- Michael Lind

Libertarians are not the brightest lights in the candelabra, a fact that is evident from the alternatives they tend to offer to public prevention of …

- Michael Lind

Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has b…

- Michael Lind

On the conservative side, today's libertarianism is far more dogmatic and devoid of qualification than the liberalism of Adam Smith or J.S. Mill. Lik…

- Michael Lind

Because of our peculiar electoral law, the American government is divided between two parties. The American people are not.

- Michael Lind

If you have free universal health care and free education supported by public school taxes, then you have more bargaining power with your bosses, but…

- Michael Lind