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10 Jul 2009, 1:43 pm
DOING SOMETHING ABOUT KIDNEY DONATIONS: An important piece from Virginia Postrel. [read post]
5 Aug 2011, 5:27 am
VIRGINIA POSTREL: Obama Glamour Can’t Fix His Charisma Deficit. “One thing is clear in the aftermath of the debt-limit debate: U.S. [read post]
2 Jul 2011, 3:55 pm
VIRGINIA POSTREL: Hollywood Auction Ends Myth of Zaftig Marilyn. [read post]
16 Dec 2007, 10:05 pm
Sally Satel, the receipient of Virginia Postrel's kidney (see also here), authored this amazing NY Times Magazine article in which she describes the overwhelming emotions that donors and would-be recipients go through under the current system of donating organs: A week after my 49th birthday in January 2005, half a year after being given a diagnosis of renal failure, a friend and I were drinking coffee at a Starbucks when I wondered aloud if I would find a donor before I… [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 1:48 am
UPDATE: Virginia Postrel comments: If anyone should fear a Depression, it should be journalists, who are already the equivalent of 1980s steelworkers. [read post]
3 May 2007, 10:12 pm
What DNA testing is telling us about the reliability of our court system -- even the criminal side of it, where "beyond a reasonable doubt" and other procedural protections are supposed to guard against false positives (Virginia Postrel, Apr. 29). [read post]
20 Mar 2007, 11:10 pm
The irony of this happening less than 48 hours after the great Virginia Postrel extensively quotes me ragging on video-blogging does not escape me. [read post]
20 Mar 2007, 11:13 pm
The irony of this happening less than 48 hours after the great Virginia Postrel extensively quotes me ragging on video-blogging does not escape me. [read post]
30 Apr 2007, 6:00 am
" Virginia Postrel says no: "What Alex calls 'the loss of pagination at a few provincial newspapers'--notably, in my life, the Dallas Morning News--mostly represents the loss of reviews that are short, dull reports on books everyone already knows about. [read post]
6 Jun 2015, 12:26 pm
[Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg View] Tags: art and artists“The tragedy of the Monet in the basement” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
10 Jun 2014, 8:03 am
Travel is promoted by the industries that profit from it, including writers who romanticize it, and I question whether the consumers who hemorrhage money and submit to the ordeals of travel even know their own minds as they profess to love travel.Now, Virginia Postrel has this essay titled "The Glamour of Getting Away/No matter how unpleasant the real journeys, travel still has a way of seducing us," and I don't see why her observations don't lead her to the… [read post]
17 Nov 2023, 5:01 am
Thanks to Virginia Postrel for the pointer.The post "NUMBER: Wisdom Above All Other" appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
9 Nov 2006, 3:57 pm
Virginia Postrel thought it was too video-heavy, but breaking the tie is Michael Malone of ABC News' Silicon Insider: This week, in what may prove to be a landmark in the story of the blogosphere, the blog aggregator Pajamas Media handed out a pile of inexpensive digital cameras to its contributors and asked them to document their experiences on Election Day. [read post]
21 Oct 2019, 9:05 pm
A new California anti-gig-economy law sponsored by a labor-organizer-turned-lawmaker is shaping up as a disaster for freelancers — exactly as Virginia Postrel and others predicted it would. [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 1:36 pm
, by Virginia Postrel: When was the last time your talent-hungry organization hired the equivalent of Super Bowl hero Malcolm Butler, the undrafted rookie who came out of the... [read post]
24 May 2007, 4:56 am
I was hoping that he and Virginia Postrel would get into a back-and-forth on the subject, but you can't have everything. [read post]
TEN YEARS AGO ON INSTAPUNDIT: “Krugman says that ‘conservative columnists and newspapers’ have made…
26 Jan 2012, 8:10 pm
But, as Virginia Postrel points out, they haven’t. [read post]
2 Oct 2009, 1:33 pm
Nat Hentoff will be the honorary chairman; Virginia Postrel will be the mistress of ceremonies; and I’m very pleased to be the keynote speaker. [read post]
7 May 2007, 10:27 am
Inspired by Virginia Postrel, Tyler Cowen is wondering about the functions of book reviews. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 12:10 pm
MORE ON ORGAN DONATIONS: Virginia Postrel reviews Kieran Healy's new book in The New York Times. [read post]
