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Large image on homepages | Joanna Andreasson. Source images: Wikimedia/Pintoricchio

Not Even the Pope Can Maintain a Monopoly

Virginia Postrel | 3.23.2019 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Rogers Fund, 1937/Metropolitan Museum of Art

Before Drug Prohibition, There Was the War on Calico

In 18th century France, wearing the wrong fabric could get you in big trouble.

Virginia Postrel | 6.25.2018 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Joanna Andreasson

How Ponchos Got More Authentic After Commerce Came to Chiapas

Virginia Postrel | 3.10.2018 6:00 AM