No doubt many WEEKLY STANDARD readers have heard the news about the “Big Bend” skyscraper planned for 57th street in Manhattan, just below Central Park. It will be a giant, upside-down U that looks a little like the St. Louis arch, if someone told it to stand up straight. It was an eye catching story that made it into several major papers and the Drudge Report—but it’s more than a novelty: The Big Bend is good news for New York, America, and the Free World. Democracies need to build more remarkable things.