Lind came to Dartmouth with three passions: conservative politics, trains, and war; they still consume him. He directs the Center for Cultural Conservatism of the Free Congress Foundation, is associate publisher of New Electric Railway Journal, and is an agitator for and author on military reform.
Although he led the Dartmouth Conservative Society, Lind wasn't unaffected by the sixties. He shifted from Libertarian to cultural conservatism because "It became evident to me that too much liberty without cultural restraint leads to disillusionment and social decay."