Virginia Postrel is the author of The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World and a contributing editor for Works in Progress. She writes essays at vpostrel.substack.com. She is president of the Southern California Handweavers' Guild and a dedicated player of Pokémon Go.
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City of Dreams
Los Angeles is a model city-for better or worse
Who's Behind the Child Care Crisis?
Slowly but surely, politicians and regulators are destroying the many child care options that do exist.
1968–1988–2008: The '80s Will Be Remembered…
For Classic Coke and condoms, gold coins and Maggie Thatcher, tax cuts and AIDS…A look backward and forward by a host of REASON friends.
1968–1988–2008: Beyond Blade Runner
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.