Virginia Postrel

Virginia Inman Postrel (born January 14, 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views.

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Cable companies aren't bad because they're parts of unwieldy media conglomerates. They're bad becaus ...

The elements that create glamour are not specific styles - bias-cut gowns or lacquered furniture - b ...

Living with a single kidney is almost exactly like living with two; the remaining kidney expands to ...

Glamour is a beautiful illusion - the word 'glamour' originally meant a literal magic spell - that p ...

Americans hate their cable companies - for bumbling installers, on-again-off-again transmissions, pe ...

Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, o ...

Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depe ...

We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a w ...

Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political ...

Frankenstein' did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized ...

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and ...

On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another.

The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban ...

Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much oppor ...

Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popul ...