Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.
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
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
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…
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is b… - Virginia Postrel
Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is b…
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want. - Virginia Postrel
Medicare is immune from the competitive pressures that force private insurers to pay attention to what patients and doctors want.
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
Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear picture.
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
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,…
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own. - Virginia Postrel
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own.
The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out. - Virginia Postrel
The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable. - Virginia Postrel
The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.
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