Andrei Stoica

Just learned that the former USPS logo was designed by none other than Saul Bass. Legendary portfolio. https://t.co/wqAEHzCACI

“Words,” John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” That was always my attitude toward opinion writing. Newspaper columns should be controversial, rubbing some people the wrong way, because the main point is to get people to rethink their assumptions. I used to say, only half... See more

Wright believed that “space is the breath of art.” If so, suburbs are holding their breath — suspended between the exhale of urban density and the inhalation of nature. Suburban planning itself exists in this liminal space, what urban theorists recognize as a deliberate in-between: not the mixed-use vitality of urban communities, nor the productive... See more

I also suspect that Americans feel that their society is a highly mobile one. John Steinbeck is often (mis)quoted as saying that “socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” But the flip side of this is that a lot of rich Americans see themselves ... See more

In the model I want to lay out, non-Western populations globally became technologically modern through the effects of scientific and technological revolutions acting on a landscape of regional early modernities that took shape 1200-1400. The science-technology strand, being far more weakly attached (if at all) to the European historical experience ... See more

But in this case, as at times in the past, Klein has brought a gavel to a knife fight. Progressives didn’t just adopt anti-growth attitudes because they were reacting to the excesses of Robert Moses. Anti-growth attitudes are motivated by more than just NIMBYism and fear of change. There are deep class resentments involved.