infrastructure

^{Tom Shakely
April 21, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Human Exceptionalism}

China, the Virus, and the Imperative to Build for Tomorrow

_{Tom Shakely
April 21, 2020
Citizen Leadership, Human Exceptionalism}

Marc Andreessen's "It's Time To Build" is a hopeful cri de coeur in this time of pandemic. Americans, and American elite leadership specifically, need what strikes me as essentially a spiritual awakening, and Andreessen speaks to that in his own way by pointing out that an ugly aspect of American life that this virus has revealed is a sort of cultural impotence. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2016
Human Exceptionalism}

China Rising

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2016
Human Exceptionalism}

I just returned from two weeks touring the People’s Republic of China. The Great Wall, 2,200-year-old Terracotta Warriors, the Forbidden City—what an experience! The size of the place is mind-boggling. Shanghai alone has almost as many people as the entire state of Texas. Most of the cities I visited are unattractive in that old communist way, with mile after mile Read More ›

^{Jake Lynch
September 20, 2009
Cascadia}

In Search Of A National Transportation Plan

_{Jake Lynch
September 20, 2009
Cascadia}

This article, published by Reporter Newspapers, quotes Steve Marshall of Discovery Institute: … “One of the failures of the current system is that it doesn’t link transportation policy to energy security and climate change,” said Steve Marshall from the Cascadia Center for Regional Development. “97 percent of our transportation is fueled by oil. People literally do not have a choice. Read More ›