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11 Mar 2012, 10:08 pm by Walter Olson
How ObamaCare will drive up cost of contraception [Avik Roy] Better idea: sell Pill over the counter [Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg] Had been seized by authorities: obese 9-year-old returns home after dropping 50 pounds [Cleveland Plain Dealer, earlier] Best campaign funding mechanism ever? [read post]
31 May 2010, 7:40 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
Virginia Postrel, noting the "needlessly ugly and opaque the prose" of academics, quotes Francine du Plessix Gray's review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's "Second Sex": Writing about the aggressive nature of man’s penetration of woman, [earlier translator] Parshley felicitously translates a Beauvoir phrase as “her inwardness is violated. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
Event barns booming as wedding venues, but some owners of traditional banquet halls want them to be subject to heavier regulation, as by requiring use of licensed bartenders [Stephanie Morse, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel] Protectionism and smuggling in ancien regime France: “Before Drug Prohibition, There Was the War on Calico” [Virginia Postrel] Thread unpacks “Big Ag bad, family farms good” platitudes [Sarah Taber] “An Oklahoma judge has… [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 12:47 am
Virginia Postrel writes: McCain is an instinctive regulator who considers business a base pursuit. [read post]
26 Nov 2015, 7:27 am by Walter Olson
While the press routinely portrays Yik Yak as a sump of digital hostility, Virginia Postrel found something quite different when she went on. [read post]
4 Jun 2015, 11:36 am
Bloomberg columnist Virginia Postrel takes notice of Michael O'Hare's recent "iconoclastic" article calling for "more, better engagement with art. [read post]
13 Mar 2014, 5:34 am by Walter Olson
I’m particularly pleased to have played a role in bringing so many terrific authors to speak at Cato this year, including Virginia Postrel and Lenore Skenazy (I helped a bit with Megan McArdle too). [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]
24 Sep 2007, 7:28 pm
...has sang-froid (scroll to end). [read post]
9 Jan 2007, 9:01 pm
(like me): So what do you think is at http://docnet.dc.state.ks.us/postrel.htm, http://www.sfsheriff.com/postrel.htm, and http://www.norcalserviceleague.org/postrel.htm?... [read post]
7 Jun 2013, 8:40 am by Donn Zaretsky
Bloomberg columnist Virginia Postrel writes about the DIA issue today. [read post]
21 Mar 2007, 5:13 pm
So does Virginia Postrel. [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 6:02 am by Walter Olson
Tags: Prop 65 Related posts Welcome Wall Street Journal readers (1) Update: California french-fry suit (0) Silver dragées (& welcome Virginia Postrel readers) (0) September 30 roundup (2) Prop 65 and Bounty Hunters (1) [read post]
7 Apr 2012, 8:29 pm by Walter Olson
Tags: Prop 65 Related posts Welcome Wall Street Journal readers (1) Warning: your life-saving drug may cause cancer in lab rats (2) Update: California french-fry suit (0) Silver dragées (& welcome Virginia Postrel readers) (0) September 30 roundup (2) [read post]
10 May 2011, 1:32 pm by Ed Driscoll
” In contrast to the hucksterish Trump, say what you will about Mitch Daniels, it’s tough to fault a presidential candidate who lists Virginia Postrel as one of his favorite authors. [read post]