Postrel

Virginia Postrel is a columnist for the business section of The New York Times, and was the editor of Reason magazine from 1989 to 2000.

The Joy of Style 2003

Virginia Postrel is a columnist for the business section of The New York Times, and was the editor of Reason magazine from 1989 to 2000.

The Joy of Style 2003

By citing Nietzsche instead of Rand, Postrel is relying on the orthogonal issue of calm, collected thought vs. dangerous passion - not empiricism vs. dogma.

Empiricism and Dogma, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Still, Postrel is right about one point: Having Starbucks in every spot of the world makes it easier to move from place to place, as the coffee shop is always “home away from home.”

Letters to the Editor 2007

Still, Postrel is right about one point: Having Starbucks in every spot of the world makes it easier to move from place to place, as the coffee shop is always “home away from home.”

Letters to the Editor 2007

In our report, Life after Living Marxism, page 10, July 8, we referred to the Reason Foundation and said its “leading writer, the syndicated columnist Sandra Postrel, is author of the libertarian book The Enemies Of Freedom and frequently talks at the Hudson Institute”.

The Corrections 2004

Aerobics instructors aren't much better paid than most service-sector workers, making me guess that Portnick fell victim to the biggest mote in Postrel's eye: class, a subject her approach elides at every turn.

Material Girl 2003

Postrel is at her best tackling the issue of "authenticity," by now aesthetic authoritarianism's last resort.

Material Girl 2003

When Anna Quindlen, quoted in Postrel's introduction, laments the "depressing" sight of "Afghan citizens celebrating the end of tyranny by buying consumer electronics," you're amused to realize that Newsweek's Mother Discourage — presumably tapping away on the only PC ever powered by a treadle — never considered that celebrating tyranny's end via a chaste contemplation of their inner light might smack to Afghans of what they'd had a bellyful of.

Material Girl 2003

Postrel is too intelligent not to preserve — or affect — a sense of proportion, but she's still a cheerleader.

Material Girl 2003