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The Aesthetic EconomyVirginia Postrel
Beauty is not Skin Deep

After SocialismVirginia Postrel
Now the Greatest Threats to Freedom Come from Those Seeking Stability and the 'One Best...

Artifact: Free HandVirginia Postrel
Nail polish vs. the Taliban

Beyond Blade RunnerVirginia I. Postrel

The Bonds of LifeVirginia Postrel
Society depends on rules. But what sort of rules enliven our world--and what sort stifl...

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Cable AccessVirginia Postrel
Regulation Gave us Media Monopolies, Can Consumer Power Shake Them?

CitingsVirginia Postrel
Slaying Fate

CitingsVirginia Postrel
The Search for Tomorrow

City of DreamsVirginia I. Postrel

The Claims of NatureVirginia Postrel and Rick Henderson
The 'Can Gays Change' Debate is Muddling the Main Issues.

Commerce and CultureVirginia Postrel
The Iconographer

Commerce and CultureVirginia Postrel
Superhero Worship

Commerce and CultureVirginia Postrel
Signs of Our Times

Columns
Commerce and CultureVirginia Postrel
Pop Psychology

Columns
Commerce and CultureVirginia Postrel
The Case for Debt

Columns
Commerce and CultureVirginia Postrel
Macroegonomics

Columns
Commerce and CultureVirginia Postrel
My Drug Problem



Culture and CommerceVirginia Postrel
In Praise of Chain Stores




Culture and CommerceVirginia Postrel
Why fashion deserves its place in art museums
The Atlantic Monthly, May 2007, pp. 133-135


Culture and CommerceVirginia Postrel
On CSI and Numb3rs, scientists are still weird---but a geeky glamour has replaced the o...




Culture and CommerseVirginia Postrel
George Hurrell's brilliantly orchestrated photographs helped define Hollywood glamour


Cutting RemarksMartha Phillips, Daniel Mitchell, and Virginia I. Postrel, ...
A Budget Roundtable

Designing RulesVirginia Postrel
Making room for different tastes

Dilbert's DoctrinesVirginia Postrel
Cartoonist Scott Adams on Cubicles, Capitalism, and the angst of the Knowledge Worker.

DrugsVirginia I. Postrel
Are Addicts Sickorbad?

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Tempted to Aid? Just Say No

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
A Textbook Case of Coercion

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Banned from the Bench?

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
After Amnesty

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Thugs and Drugs

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Thalidomide Still Kills

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
FDR's Juvenile Delinquents

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel, Marty Zupan, and Robert W. Poole, Jr, ...
Sharper Images

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
The Chinese Revolution

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Disabled Politics

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Thou Shalt Not Covet

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Sure-Fire Campaign Reform

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
What a Wimp

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Neither Liberty, Nor Safety

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Classless Classrooms

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Black and White Issues

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Sex, Religion, and Art Politics

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Democracy Blues

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Calling Names

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Gorbomania: The Sequel

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Sticky Labels

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
The Banality of Freedom?

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Unmaking Myths

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Judging Judges

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Cybernetic War

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Policy Relapse

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Poetic Injustice

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Blind Trust

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Bad Choice

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Why Women Can't Commit

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Historical Certainties

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Fuelishness

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Fin De Siecle

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Competitive Advantage

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
New World Man

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Political Paradox

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Training Wreck

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
New Bedfellows

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Unions Forever?

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
In Memoriam: F.A. Hayek

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Policy Bust

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Politics Without Answers

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Dynamic Tension

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Trade Wins

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Equality Time

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TV or not TV?

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Control Freaks

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Real World Economics

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Lost Causes

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System Overload

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Friendly Skies

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Stormy Weather

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Anxiety Attack

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Border War

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Paternalism Test

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The Children's Hour

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Populist Industrial Policy

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
The Character Issue

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Lack of Conviction

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Whitewater Falls

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Memory Lapse

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
New Alliance Parties

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Illogical Deductions

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
The Lethal Center

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Race to the Bottom

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Fatal Fallacies

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Washington Traps

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Food Fight

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Future Tense

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Curb Your Dog!

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Honest Admission

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Overcoming Merit

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Looking Forward

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Past Master

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Medical Meddling

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Bloc Busters

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Abreast of History

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Gas Bags

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Legacies

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Clueless

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Standing Pat

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
The Other Drug War

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
The Choice

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Laissez Fear

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Capital Cynics

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
The Croly Ghost

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Beyond Boredom

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Fatalist Attraction

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Monstrous Hybrids

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Reefer Madness

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
No Class

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Fighting Words

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
The Nail File

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
License to Grill

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Post-Crisis Politics

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
The Two Faces of Bill Clinton

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Test Case

EditorialsVirginia I. Postrel
Creative Insecurity

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Lost Horizon

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
No Telling

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Let's Pretend

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Unions Forever?

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Low Fidelity

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Power Fantasies

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Creative Matrix

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Reactionary Running Mates

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Rumor Mongers

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
When Doves Cry

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
The Pleasantville Solution

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Source Code

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
External Cost

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Dangerous Remedy

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Seattle Surprise

EditorialsVirginia Postrel
Prescription for Trouble

Editor's NoteVirginia Postrel

Editorials
Fed UpVirginia I. Postrel
The Problems of the Federal Reserve

Editorial
Fighting WordsVirginia I. Postrel
Does Reading this make you a Terrorist?

Free Minds and Free Markets (1993)Robert W. Poole, Jr. and Virginia I. Postrel
Twenty-Five Years of Reason
45 Chapters, 395pp

The Future and Its Enemies (1998)Virginia Postrel
The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress
8 Reviews, 3 Readable

Columns
The Gift-Gard EconomyVirginia Postrel
The Atlantic Monthly, May 2009, pp. 28-31

The Green Road to SerfdomVirginia I. Postrel
At least the socialists claimed to like people.

Editorials
High-Tech's Starr ReportVirginia Postrel
The Consequences of a Software Culture War

Impure ThoughtsVirginia Postrel
Waiting for Perfectly 'Clean' Opportunities to Apply your Principles Means you Could Lo...

The In-Box PresidencyVirginia Postrel
What's Behind the Politics of Personality

Interview with the VampVirginia I. Postrel
Why Camille Paglia Hates Affirmative Action, Defends Rush Limbaugh, and Respects Ayn Rand.

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Ironic ProcessingVirginia Postrel
How Al Gore's Pursuit of 'Central Organizing Principles' Winds up Slicing us Into Ever-...

To The World"
Joy, to the WorldVirginia Postrel
A Techno-Celebrity's Childish Manifesto

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Laboratory RatsVirginia Postrel
What should State Governments do about the 'New Economy'?

Life & LibertyKyle Rothweiler and Virginia I. Postrel
Music for the Upwardly Mobile

New World"
The New, New WorldVirginia I. Postrel and Nick Gillespie
Richard Rodriguez on Culture and Assimilation

Of Mice and MenVirginia I. Postrel
Finding Cancer's Causes

On the FrontierVirginia I. Postrel
From the Wild East of Russian Capitalism to the Evolving forms of Cyberspace, Esther Dy...

Editorials
Party PoopersVirginia Postrel
Why the Republicans Deserved to Lose

Editorials
Persecution ComplexVirginia I. Postrel
The Attack On 'Religious Harassment' is part of a Bigger Picture.

Peters PriciplesVirginia I. Postrel
The Management Guru as Playground Director, Provocateur, and Passionate Defender of Ope...

Politicizing ParenthoodVirginia Postrel
An 'Inclusive' and 'Tolerant' Society can't have a Government that Treats Nonparents as...

Books & Arts
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A Power to Persuade (2 Reviews) Virginia Postrel
Glamour, by Stephen Gundle
- Glamour by Stephen Gundle
- Glamour in Six Dimensions by Judith Brown

The PressVirginia I. Postrel
For this Guide

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Priced to MoveVirginia I. Postrel
The CPI can't keep up with a dynamic economy.

Quiet CrusadeVirginia I. Postrel
Seize a Church School, Ban a Prayer Meeting, close down a Synagogue... Zealous Bureaucr...

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Raiding The Vipers' Nest (3 Reviews) Virginia I. Postrel
Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be, by Walter Truett Anderson
- Evolution Isn't What It Used to Be by Walter Truett Anderson
- From Eros to Gaia by Freeman Dyson
- A Piece of the Action by Joseph Nocera

ReconstructionVirginia I. Postrel
The Power of Imagination

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Ye Olde Tax Revolt (Review) Virginia Postrel
The Politics of Mirth, by Leah S. Marcus
- The Politics of Mirth by Leah S. Marcus

RiotsVirginia I. Postrel and Jacob Sullum
Rage, Riots, & Respect


Stars In Her EyesVirginia Postrel and Steven Postrel
Astronomer Sallie Baliunas on Sunspots, Global Warming, and the Benefits of Privately F...

The Substance of Style (2003)Virginia Postrel
How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness
5 Reviews, 1 Readable

Talking TrashVirginia I. Postrel and Lynn Scarlett
There's a Solution to America's Garbage Problem, but it isn't what you Think.

TrendsVirginia I. Postrel
Balance Sheet

TrendsVirginia I. Postrel
Balance Sheet

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Balance Sheet

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Balance Sheet

TrendsVirginia I. Postrel
Balance Sheet

Uncommon CultureVirginia I. Postrel

UpfrontVirginia I. Postrel
The Mysterious Fund

UpfrontVirginia I. Postrel.
The Solution Catches On

UpfrontVirginia I. Postrel
Who Are You, Joe Reason?


Editorials
What Ails Health CareVirginia I. Postrel

Editorials
What's Fair In War?Virginia I. Postrel

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What's Hate Got To Do With It? (3 Reviews) Virginia I. Postrel
American Steel, by Richard Preston
- American Steel by Richard Preston
- The Outnation by Jonathan Rauch
- The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich A. Hayek

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When Property Is Theft (2 Reviews) Virginia Postrel
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, by Daniel Bell
- The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism by Daniel Bell
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder


Who's Behind the Child Care Crisis?Virginia I. Postrel
Slowly but surely, politicians and regulators are destroying the many child care option...

Why Buffy Kicked AssVirginia Postrel
The deep meaning of TV's favorite vampire slayer

1993 Reason Foundation BanquetCharles Murray and Virginia I. Postrel

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