William S. Lind (born July 9, 1947) is an American paleoconservative, a columnist, a Christian, and an expert on light rail transport systems. He's the author of several books on military fields and one of the first proponents of the Fourth-generation warfare theory. Lind is also a pundit on political matters. Lind is a key proponent of the "Cultural Marxism" conspiracy theory first advanced by the Schiller Institute, he asserts that Marxists control much of what is in popular television content, and that modern Political correctness is directly attributable to Karl Marx. Lind also wrote Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War, in which a group of Christian Marines leads an armed rebellion against political correctness in the government. He outed himself as owner of the pen name "Thomas Hobbes" in one of his columns for The American Conservative.