Andrei Stoica

What does this nation become on the road to progress. We stand at the edge of technical innovation and distributed scale our forefathers couldn’t even fathom. But if we care nothing for the soul of each citizen, as we continue to shift the hands of power as this republic was designed to do — it is far too easy to not address the infected molar, and... See more

Marx believed that the capitalist market economy was incapable of delivering an acceptable distribution of income for anything but the briefest of historical intervals. ...But "incapable" is surely too strong...[S]ocial democracy, progressive income taxes, a very large and well-established safety net, public education to a high standard, channels... See more

I propose six significant levels of pace and size in the working structure of a robust and adaptable civilization. From fast to slow the levels are: - Fashion/art - Commerce- Infrastructure- Governance- Culture- Nature

All of these trends had been decades in the making, but as esteemed urban planner Robert Beauregard notes, it was the summer of unrest that marked a paradigm shift in the minds of the American public. In Voices of Decline , his seminal work, Beauregard traces American perceptions about urban progress and regress in the twentieth century through a... See more