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29 Jul 2010, 5:29 am
VIRGINIA POSTREL: The Chinese can’t figure out why we don’t love their World’s Fair. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 7:58 am
NICK GILLESPIE, VIRGINIA POSTREL, AND JOHN STOSSEL, on the growing libertarian influence. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 2:48 pm
But Daniels’ references to Mancur Olson’s Rise and Decline of Nations and Virginia Postrel’s The Future and Its Enemies show that his interest in libertarianism and political economy is genuine and serious. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 6:37 am
VIRGINIA POSTREL: Obama’s Glamour Problem. [read post]
31 May 2010, 7:40 am
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]
31 May 2010, 7:40 am
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]
VIRGINIA POSTREL SENDS THIS, which looks like a worthy cause: A sort of Ronald McDonald House for w…
15 May 2010, 3:25 pm
VIRGINIA POSTREL SENDS THIS, which looks like a worthy cause: A sort of Ronald McDonald House for wounded veterans. [read post]
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF, THIS TIME AS FARCE: Read this Virginia Postrel piece from 1995 and compar…
19 Apr 2010, 4:07 am
HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF, THIS TIME AS FARCE: Read this Virginia Postrel piece from 1995 and compare it to the latest “narrative” being peddled in Washington. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 12:49 am
Here. [read post]
VIRGINIA POSTREL reviews Sheena Iyengar’s The Art Of Choosing. “Just because people happily comply …
18 Apr 2010, 8:53 pm
VIRGINIA POSTREL reviews Sheena Iyengar’s The Art Of Choosing. [read post]
13 Apr 2010, 3:00 am
It must also be beautiful, unique, and meaningful, abiding what author Virginia Postrel calls ‘the aesthetic imperative. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 10:00 am
VIRGINIA POSTREL, the deeper meaning of glamour. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 7:59 am
MUST-SEE REASON TV: Virginia Postrel on health care innovation. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 8:28 pm
His latest book, The Laws of Disruption, was a rare bright spot in a decade of terrible books about technology and revived a venerable tradition of dynamist classics, including his previous book as well as Clayton Christensen’s 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail and Virginia Postrel’s 1999 The Future and its Enemies. [read post]
9 Feb 2010, 2:17 pm
Listed at 9.99 in the Kindle edition, and yet no charge showed up on my Amazon account — and shortly thereafter, the price shot up to 89.99, with an odd note saying if I wanted to know why this might be so, ask Virginia Postrel. [read post]
7 Feb 2010, 1:36 am
See Megan McArdle, John Scalzi, Joshua Gans, Virginia Postrel, Lynne Kiesling, Lynne Kielsing and Lynne Kiesling, among others. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 7:18 pm
VIRGINIA POSTREL: Amazon vs. [read post]
2 Feb 2010, 1:52 pm
Update: Delighted to have Virginia Postrel, of whom I am a big fan, join the comments and point us to her article at the Atlantic business channel. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 10:47 am
Theuthian Technophiles (aka “The Internet Optimists”) Thamusian Technophobes (aka “The Internet Pessimists”) Nicholas Negroponte, Being Digital Neil Postman, Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Virginia Postrel, The Future and Its Enemies Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture James Surowiecki, The Wisdom of Crowds Lee Siegel, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of… [read post]
23 Jan 2010, 6:02 am
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]
