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Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel is the author of The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness (HarperCollins).

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• Why Women Can't Commit

  Virginia Postrel

  June 1991

• The Banality of Freedom?

  Virginia Postrel

  March 1990

• Assets and Liabilities

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  January 1990

• Is There Any Hope For This Man?

  Katherine Mangu-Ward, Virginia Postrel, Brink Lindsey, Richard Epstein, Bruce Bartlett, Jonathan Rauch & Deirdre McCloskey

  November 2008

• Consumer Vertigo

  Virginia Postrel

  June 2005

• High In the Sunlit Silence

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  December 22, 2004

• Light Unto the Wealth of Nations

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  December 19, 2003

• Designing Rules

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  October 2003

• Why Buffy Kicked Ass

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  August/September 2003

• Artifact: Free Hand

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  March 2002

• Don't Impede Medical Progress

  Virginia Postrel

  December 5, 2001

• Making Medical Progress a Crime

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  June 21, 2001

• Dropping the SATs Is an Excuse to Drop Standards

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  February 25, 2001

• Electoral Beauty Myths

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  December 11, 2000

• Ironic Processing

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  November 2000

• Mine Eyes Deceive Me

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  October 2, 2000

• Politicizing Parenthood

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  October 2000

• Impure Thoughts

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  August/September 2000

• Cable Access

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  July 2000

• Joy, to the World

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  June 2000

• Putting The Hex On Rx

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  May 29, 2000

• Artifact: Liberty Undone

  Virginia Postrel

  May 2000

• Laboratory Rats

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  May 2000

• Prescription for Trouble

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  March 2000

• Seattle Surprise

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  February 2000

• Sometimes the Patient Knows Best

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  January 3, 2000

• Surprise!

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  January 2, 2000

• Editor's Note

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  January 2000

• High-Tech's Starr Report

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  January 2000

• Reactionary Running Mates

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  December 1999

• Rising Heat

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  November 12, 1999

• What Really Scares Microsoft

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  November 8, 1999

• The Esthetics Police

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  November 1, 1999

• External Cost

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  November 1999

• After Socialism

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  November 1999

• Dynamism, Stasis, and Popular Culture

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  October 23, 1999

• Dangerous Remedy

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  October 1999

• The Pleasures of Persuasion

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  August 2, 1999

• Creative Matrix

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  August/September 1999

• Learning to love the future

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  July 18, 1999

• When Movies Become 'Product'

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  June 14, 1999

• The Big One

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  June 13, 1999

• When Doves Cry

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  June 1999

• Source Code

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  May 1999

• Power Fantasies

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  April 1999

• The Pleasantville Solution

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  March 1999

• Alone but Not Lonely

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  February 22, 1999

• Misplacing the Blame for Our Troubles on 'Flat, Not Tall' Spaces

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  February 8, 1999

• Rumor Mongers

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  February 1999

• The Dilbert Doctrines: An Interview with Scott Adams

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  February 1999