Virginia Postrel is a visiting fellow at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University and a contributing editor for Works in Progress. Her latest book is The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World (Basic Books). She writes a newsletter at vpostrel.substack.com.
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Life and work circa 2008.
Quiet Crusade
Seize a church school, ban a prayer meeting, close down a synagogue…zealous bureaucrats are strangling religious liberty.