Hold Off On Buying Guns and Gold—For the Moment

But Do Prepare For Revolution, Says Michael Lind

The key division in American politics and economics right now isn’t between liberals and conservatives, Michael Lind told an audience at the Hammer Museum. It’s between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians. What does this division mean now, what is its history, and how did America’s economy get into the current mess? These are the questions that Lind, a public intellectual, co-founder of the New America Foundation, and author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States, tried to answer in his talk. Lind divides the past 250 years of …