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	Virginia Postrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Virginia Postrel is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views.
		She contrasts it with "stasis," a philosophy favoring top-down control and regulation and a desire to maintain the present state of affairs.
		Virginia Postrel was editor of Reason from July 1989 to January 2000 and editor-at-large in 2000 and 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virginia_Postrel (229 words)

	Reason Magazine -- Virginia Postrel biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Virginia Postrel is editor-at-large of Reason and a columnist for Forbes.
		Postrel has twice been a finalist in the commentary category of the Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism for her columns in Reason.
		Postrel graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English.
	reason.com /Bio/newvp.html (170 words)

	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Postrel?
		Postrel merely asserts that the desire to abolish the Confederate battle flag is a "rather obvious libertarian point." (At least DiLorenzo made it on to her radar screen, though; she ignored numerous articles by Joseph Sobran, as well as my criticism of Boaz completely).
		Postrel is referring to the federal government from 1865-1964, such that she is not claiming that the Lincoln or Andrew Johnson administrations abolished Jim Crow, then this only raises a further question: is Ms.
		Postrel neglects to bash the Maryland flag for its red and white botony crosses, added to honor those who fought for the Confederacy, and the Virginia flag, adopted in 1861 as a symbol of resistance to Lincoln’s tyranny.
	www.lewrockwell.com /dieteman/dieteman46.html (2054 words)

	Online NewsHour: "The Future and its Enemies" February 1, 1999
		VIRGINIA POSTREL: Yes, there is particularly among people in their 20's, there is this tremendous emphasis on sort of forming your life.
		VIRGINIA POSTREL: Well, I think all of these are part of a competitive learning something and part of that is social criticism.
		VIRGINIA POSTREL: Well, I have a chapter on the natural and the artificial, which I think is a big dividing line not just on these biotech issues but also on how we think about the environment.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/february99/gergen_2-1.html (1074 words)

	The Future and Its Enemies, by Virginia Postrel
		Virginia Postrel, editor of Reason magazine, in her brilliant, bold, and compelling new work, The Future and Its Enemies, defies conventional political boundaries of left and right and liberal and conservative to divide the world into stasists and dynamists.
		Ms Postrel's division is reminiscent of Thomas Sowell's unconstrained and constrained visions as thoroughly discussed in his Conflict of Visions and The Vision of the Anointed.
		Ms Postrel observes that although stasis supporters are numerous, their visions of the ideal future are varied and incompatible making their alliances fragile and temporary.
	www.quebecoislibre.org /younkins15.htm (2903 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Give Them What They Want: An interview with Virginia Postrel
		Postrel codified that era's hopefulness in a book, The Future and Its Enemies, in which she contrasted dynamists – who glory in an open-ended future that is conceived in terms of improvisation, surprise, and creativity – with stasists, who value stability and believe in planning.
		Postrel, now a columnist for The New York Times, quit her job at Reason a few years ago (although she still writes for the magazine) and researched a book about a seemingly less political topic: the cultural import of design.
		Virginia Postrel: It sounds dramatic when you put it that way, but each of these changes was independent of the others.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2004-03-05/screens_feature7.html (779 words)

	The Future and Its Enemies
		Postrel is free to contend that a centrally controlled system will be apt to stifle innovation.
		Postrel does essay one argument in support of her delight in the radically new, but it does not do her much good.
		Postrel to bemoan policies that slow the rate of innovation, unless she advances an argument that the rate ought to be maximized.
	www.mises.org /misesreview_detail.asp?control=50 (1115 words)

	Amazon.com: The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Postrel's apt example of the proliferation in toilet-brush design is an effective rebuttal against such theorists-after all, nobody buys a sleek toilet brush to impress neighbors who will never see it, so aesthetics must constitute much of the rationale.
		While her argument is intellectually sophisticated, Postrel's journalistic training ensures the examples she cites are well-chosen and the prose remains crisp and readable.
		Postrel declines the enterprise of demarcation and does not try to draw a boundary between art and the pleasures of daily life.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060186321?v=glance (2862 words)

	Advocates for Self-Government - Libertarian Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		She advocates a "a world of constant creation, discovery, and competition" where the future is built bottom-up by individuals, not mandated top-down by politicians.
		Postrel -- who calls herself "a small-l libertarian who occasionally votes Libertarian" -- has a long track record in the liberty movement.
		In 2003, Postrel published The Substance of Style, which examines the role and importance of aesthetics in culture.
	www.theadvocates.org /celebrities/virginia-postrel.html (496 words)

	Amazon.com: The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress: Books: Virginia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Postrel criticizes those who strive to re-create a simpler past or to thwart competition; specifically, she opposes William Greider (One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism, LJ 1/97), who sees footloose capitalism as a danger.
		Virginia Postrel opposes ideas of a planned future based on any model of the 'one best way.' She argues in this book that the best way for the future to happen is sponteneously.
		As Postrel notes, they are unashamedly snobbish, often deriding the general public for valuing the better life afforded by technology and the bugbear of 'consumerism.' Postrel eloquently explores all of this, highlighting the problems endemic to such thought.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684862697?v=glance (4188 words)

	Virginia Postrel's The Substance of Style: yes, and...? \| Samizdata.net
		My problem is that the underlying mentality Virginia Postrel brings to the study of aesthetics, Look and Feel, etc., is one that I arrived at many years ago.
		Or to put the same point rather differently, Postrel is describing one of the many peace dividends of the end of the Cold War.
		Postrel is a schmoozer of the opinion forming and opinion spreading classes, and not coincidentally to the message of this book, she appears to look the part.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/005359.html (2086 words)

	Talking with Virginia Postrel - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
		Virginia Postrel, former editor of Reason magazine, now writes the “Economic Scene” column for The New York Times, and her words have graced the pages of Forbes, Forbes ASAP, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post.
		Postrel’s new book, The Substance of Style: How the Growth of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness, explores the economic, cultural, social, personal, and political implications of the growing importance of aesthetics in business and society.
		Postrel: The biggest difference between graphic design and interface design today is not so much the nature of the medium—which is, of course, different—but the relative immaturity of interface design.
	www.boxesandarrows.com /view/talking_with_virginia_postrel (3363 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Postrel tells the story, from back when pagers were still the big thing, about how Motorola was for a time able to charge a $15 premium for their units.
		I saw Virginia Postrel speak recently at Rhode Island School of Design, and it was clear that she knew nothing about aesthetics.
		At the beginning of her speech, Postrel apologed for the awful design of her powerpoint presentation and admitted that she was not a designer and had no background in design criticism.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060933852 (1271 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Future and Its Enemies by Virginia Postrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		As the editor of Reason magazine and the author of a consistently spry column in Forbes, Virginia Postrel has been an original and unrelenting critic of the politicians, bureaucrats, and self-appointed social guardians who put more faith in their own meliorative powers than in the wisdom of free markets and individual choice.
		...This may explain why Postrel's taxonomy is so unhelpful once one looks beyond the handful of highly contested issues, like immigration and free trade, on which some elements of the Left and the Right have indeed come together in recent years against mainstream "dynamist" opinion...
		...As for dynamism itself, Postrel's error, like that of libertarianism more generally, is to assume that the same principles of change and absolute openness must apply across every realm of life...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V107I4P64-1.htm (1490 words)

	Blogcritics.org: Virginia Postrel: Fighting for the Future
		In the mid-1990s, Virginia Postrel--a Forbes, Wall Street Journal and Inc. journalist, New York Times editorialist and editor of the libertarian-oriented "Reason" magazine--watched CNN's "Crossfire" and was amused at what she saw.
		Outside of our home, Postrel is particularly fond of what she calls "third places" (an idea which Postrel says grew out of a book by Ray Oldenburg) as dynamic spaces where we can interact, freed from the rigid spaces of our home or office.
		Postrel has observed that the liberal/conservative dichotomy has outgrown its usefullness, and I can accept that, but in its place she posits her own dichotomy, the "dynamist/stasist" that seems equally unfit at describing anything observable.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/10/04/174538.php (2143 words)

	The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness - Boxes and ...
		Postrel examines how the role of aesthetics and style are transforming our culture and economy in a variety of ways.
		Virginia Postrel explains how the ability to produce variety and utility was the tipping point for “the beginning of a new economic and cultural movement, in which look and feel matter more than ever.𔄙 The cycle of individually produced items to mass-produced monotony and finally to mass-produced distinctive items was complete.
		Postrel’s answer is that companies like Starbucks have used aesthetics to give their customers a unique sensory experience, and their customers can’t get enough of it.
	www.boxesandarrows.com /view/the_substance_of_style_how_the_rise_of_aesthetic_value_is_remaking_commerce_culture_and_consciousness (3044 words)

	WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA POSTREL?
		Postrel's bete noir: a symbol, for her, of all that is "reactionary" and evil — figured prominently among these "paleos," in particular for his principled and very visible opposition to the first Gulf War.
		Postrel and her cyber-sycophants are an example of what happens when people abandon their principles in the pursuit of their pathetic little careers: none of them ever had an inkling as to what libertarianism was all about to begin with.
		Virginia, dear, we don't give a hoot what you and your pro-war comrades think has "changed" about libertarianism: as far as we're concerned, libertarianism never changed, it isn't changing now, and it won't change.
	www.antiwar.com /justin/j040802.html (4826 words)

	Austin Bay Blog » Blogger’s Burden: Virginia Postrel Weighs Input and Output
		Postrel writes an economics column for the NY Times that is always informative.
		Postrel has some very relevant thoughts on the difference between blog posts and crafted articles.
		So, I think Virginia’s piece is slightly off the mark because she doesn’t seem to know the entire story behind Sullivan’s blogging history.
	austinbay.net /blog?p=50 (587 words)

	Tres Producers
		Virginia Postrel, the "dynamist," is one of our most serious, creative, and independent thinkers.
		A graduate from Princeton in English, Virginia's journalistic credentials are impeccable: from July 1989 to January 2000, she was editor of Reason magazine, which was selected as a finalist for the National Magazine Awards for essays in 1993 and public interest journalism in 1996 and 1998 under her guidance.
		The great Virginia Postrel is feeling feisty but a little down as she rounds into summer.
	tres_producers.blogspot.com /2002_05_19_tres_producers_archive.html (16987 words)

	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Postrel? [Free Republic]
		Postrel merely asserts that the desire to abolish the Confederate battle flag is a "rather obvious libertarian point." (At least DiLorenzo made it on to her radar screen, though; she ignored
		the Virginia flag, adopted in 1861 as a symbol of resistance to Lincoln’s tyranny.
		The "arrogant, ignorant woman" Virginia Postrel, and David Dieteman, who is "pretty much dedicated to equating ‘libertarianism’ with the decidedly anti-freedom policies of the Old South (along with extreme foreign policy isolationism and a misanthropic strand of anarchism inspired by Murray Rothbard)."
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3af0ef032991.htm (2684 words)

	the evangelical outpost: Why I'm Not An Atheist: A Riposte for Virginia Postrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		In her disappointment with the Catholic Church, Virginia Postrel has listed a reason why she is not a Catholic: Here's the latest example of moral leadership from the Catholic hierarchy.
		In her disappointment with the Catholic Church, Virginia Postrel has listed a reason why she is not a Catholic:
		Postrel, is reason number 7, 598 why I’m not an atheist.
	www.evangelicaloutpost.com /archives/000204.html (580 words)

	usnews.com: Technology: Next News: The new Age of Aesthetics (11/11/03)
		I recently E-chatted with Postrel, who also writes the popular Dynamist.com blog, about the meaning of this trend and the role of technology in driving it.
		Postrel: Higher incomes, lower costs, and shifting cultural attitudes fuel the trend toward more aesthetics in more aspects of life and, at the same time, more aesthetic pluralism.
		Postrel: Technology has significantly lowered the cost of aesthetics and, in many cases, improved quality, from the durability of upholstery fabrics to the subtlety and staying power of hair dye.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/tech/nextnews/archive/next031111.htm (1417 words)

	Vinod's Blog:Virginia Postrel
		Virginia Postrel came out to SF last Friday night to do a talk for the Pacific Research Institute.
		She covered material from 2 of her books - the Future and Its Enemies and The Substance of Style.
		Now I've been a fan of Postrel's for several years so there wasn't much she could say that would be of earthshattering significance but it was still cool to see / hear her up close and personal for a second time.
	www.vinod.com /blog/News/VirginiaPostrel.html (98 words)

	NCPA Luncheon and Book Signing with Virginia Postrel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		Virginia Postrel will discuss her new book, The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress.
		A distinguished author and editor, Postrel has been a finalist for several awards including the National Magazine Award, the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and she was a recipient of the Free Press Association's Mencken Award for Commentary.
		Virginia Postrel is a Forbes and Forbes ASAP columnist, an Intellectual Capital contributing editor and op-ed author.
	www.ncpa.org /events/postrel.html (276 words)

	Knowledge Problem: VIRGINIA POSTREL ON ECONOMIC HISTORY
		Virginia's recent New York Times column includes an interview with my friend and mentor Joel Mokyr, who recently edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, which was published last fall.
		For example, I wrote three entries for the encyclopedia: the history of energy regulation, contract enforcement through history, and Adam Smith.
		Virginia's column highlights the themes that emerge from taking such an extensive look at economic history:
	www.knowledgeproblem.com /archives/000656.html (502 words)

	It's a Style Thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
		We caught up with Postrel, who writes an economic column for The New York Times and a column and blog for D magazine, the city magazine for Dallas/Fort Worth (to read her blog, visit www.frontburner.dmagazine.com).
		Virginia Postrel: I'm not saying it's more important than substance—but [style is present] in more aspects of life, particularly in commercial life.
		Postrel: Some entrepreneurs feel that being practical means ignoring style, but in fact, it means giving the market what it wants.
	www.entrepreneur.com /Magazines/Copy_of_MA_SegArticle/0,4453,314350,00.html (534 words)

	FIRE - Virginia Postrel
		Virginia Postrel is the author of The Substance of Style (2003) and The Future and Its Enemies (1998).
		She is a graduate of Princeton University, with a degree in English literature.
		"The Scene: Free Speech at the University of Alaska," Virginia Postrel, Dynamist.com, March 29, 2001
	www.thefire.org /index.php/person/3446.html (216 words)

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