How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis-a regulated, engineered world…

- Virginia Postrel

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The experie…

- Virginia Postrel

Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is b…

- Virginia Postrel

Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.

- Virginia Postrel

Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.

- Virginia Postrel

Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about,…

- Virginia Postrel

The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.

- Virginia Postrel

In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.

- Virginia Postrel

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

- Virginia Postrel