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31 Jan 2014, 4:49 am by Walter Olson
Tweet Tags: Cato Institute, live in personWatch: Virginia Postrel’s author panel at Cato is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
24 Jan 2014, 9:29 am by Walter Olson
[Reuters] Speaking of glamor, don’t miss Virginia Postrel’s appearance at Cato next Wednesday to discuss her book The Power of Glamour: Persuasion, Longing, and Individual Aspiration. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 8:15 pm by Walter Olson
And don’t forget that next Wednesday I’ll be moderating a luncheon talk at Cato by another favorite author, Virginia Postrel, with powerhouse commenters Tyler Cowen and Sam Tanenhaus. [read post]
7 Jun 2013, 8:40 am by Donn Zaretsky
Bloomberg columnist Virginia Postrel writes about the DIA issue today. [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 8:06 am by Ken
I got to meet Virginia Postrel, which pleased me, and Adam Steinbaugh, who located me by tweeting words to the effect of "are you that schlubby guy over there staring at his iPad?" [read post]
30 Nov 2012, 8:06 am by Ken
I got to meet Virginia Postrel, which pleased me, and Adam Steinbaugh, who located me by tweeting words to the effect of "are you that schlubby guy over there staring at his iPad? [read post]
17 Nov 2012, 7:36 pm by David Friedman
I am arguing that much opposition to change, across a wide range of different topics and disputes, is based on the mistaken assumption that if only that particular change is prevented, the next year, the next decade, perhaps even the next century, will be more or less the same as the present.That is very unlikely.In The Future and its Enemies, Virginia Postrel argued that the chief political division of the future would be between stasists and dynamists, between those who fear… [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 9:08 pm by Walter Olson
.] “Mission Creep Leads TSA to Racially Profile in Pursuit of Non-Terrorists to Arrest” [Virginia Postrel] Guestblogging at The Agitator, William Peterson outlines doubts about prosecutions that include the pursuit of Victoria Sprouse on mortgage-fraud charges in North Carolina, abuse accusations relating to the Creative Frontiers school near Sacramento, and the conviction of Courtney Bisbee at the hands of Maricopa County D.A. [read post]
21 Aug 2012, 9:06 pm by Walter Olson
.” [TCEQ press release, WSJ editorial] As upstate New York hopes for Greek-yogurt boom, enviros defend extra-strict factory-farm (“CAFO”) regs [Abby Wisse Schachter, NY Post] Land-use control and economic inequality in America [Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg; Randal O'Toole, Cato] House Oversight report confirms EPA lead-paint renovation rule continues to frustrate Main Street [Angela Logomasini; earlier here, etc.] [read post]
13 Aug 2012, 10:00 am by Glenn Reynolds
VIRGINIA POSTREL: Mission Creep Leads TSA to Racially Profile in Pursuit of Non-Terrorists to Arrest. [read post]
7 Aug 2012, 7:15 am by Glenn Reynolds
IN RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER LINK ON THE “HAPPINESS INDEX,” Virginia Postrel recommends that I link This debunking by Deirdre McCloskey. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 9:13 am
Virginia Postrel explains: “Bourgeois Dignity” is both the title of a recent book by the economic historian Deirdre N. [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 7:46 am by Glenn Reynolds
VIRGINIA POSTREL: How The Elites Built America’s Wall. “The key to convergence was never just mobile capital. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 3:48 pm by Glenn Reynolds
I DON’T KNOW, BUT UNDER OBAMACARE I’VE GOT A SINKING FEELING I’LL FIND OUT: Virginia Postrel: How Much Is Your Kidney Worth? [read post]