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10 Dec 2016, 10:17 am
There’s hope for stopping some of the regulations that the Obama administration began dropping in its last months before heading out the door, including the arguably worst of all, overtime for mid-level workers, now blocked by a federal judge in Texas [Kathy Hoekstra/Watchdog, McClatchy, Brittany Hunter/FEE; Virginia Postrel (“Not every workplace is, or aspires to be, the civil service. [read post]
12 Mar 2011, 4:10 pm
Virginia Postrel: When Steve Jobs appeared on stage last week to unveil the iPad 2, which hit stores Friday, he said, "People laughed at us for using the word 'magical,' but, you know what, it's turned out to be magical. [read post]
9 Mar 2012, 8:57 am
Says Nick Gillespie, quoting Virginia Postrel. [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]
12 Mar 2012, 11:29 am
Adler) Virginia Postrel suggests an easy way to expand access to contraception without risking any imposition on religious institutions: Make oral contraceptives available without a prescription. [read post]
20 Dec 2017, 6:12 am
"There's More Than One Kind of Workplace Civility; The sexual harassment scandal is changing social norms; Let the new ones respect human variety": Online at Bloomberg View, Virginia Postrel has an essay that begins, "The #MeToo cascade has now claimed a federal judge. [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 8:32 am
On numerous occasions here and elsewhere I have cited the enormous influence that Virginia Postrel’s 1998 book, The Future and Its Enemies, has had on me. [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 10:08 pm
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
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]
13 Mar 2008, 12:47 am
Virginia Postrel writes: McCain is an instinctive regulator who considers business a base pursuit. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 2:59 am
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]
26 Nov 2015, 7:27 am
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]
22 Jun 2015, 5:53 am
An outsider looking at our world would be amazed at such behaviour, which at times appears self-destructive.I'd read this earlier via Virginia Postrel, linking to "Pope Francis Is Wrong about Air Conditioning" at The National Review. [read post]
1 Feb 2014, 5:30 am
We were talking about this yesterday, and here's Virginia Postrel — via Instapundit — talking about the factual inaccuracy of pointing to art history, in particular, as a college major that might not correlate with a good income: [A]rt history isn’t a major naive kids fall into because they’ve heard a college degree — any college degree — will get you a good job... [read post]
10 Jun 2013, 1:43 pm
Virginia Postrel responds to some of the criticism her column on the DIA received last week. [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]
30 Nov 2012, 8:06 am
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]
13 Mar 2014, 5:34 am
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
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]
11 Nov 2006, 9:16 am
It seems to have began with Virginia Postrel - an elitist jury hater, and former editor of that magazine. [read post]
