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Virginia Postrel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Virginia I. Postrel (born 14 January 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views. She is best known for her two nonfiction books, The Future and its Enemies and The Substance of Style. In the former she explains her philosophy, 'dynamism,' a forward-looking and change-seeking philosophy which generally favors unregulated organization through 'spontaneous order'. She contrasts it with 'stasis,' a philosophy favoring top-down control and regulation and a desire to maintain the present state of affairs. ..."

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Associations

Editor (1989-2000), Editor-at-large (2000-2001), Reason Magazine

Web Pages

Virginia Postrel - Libertarian
Advocates for Self-Government

Writings

Friedrich the Great, Boston Globe, 11 Jan 2004
Related Topic: Friedrich A. Hayek

Interviews

Interview with the Vamp: Why Camille Paglia hates affirmative action, defends Rush Limbaugh, and respects Ayn Rand, Reason, Aug 1995
Related Topic: Camille Paglia
"... I support legalization of drugs even while I can see the damage that was wrought to my generation through drugs ... I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible ... government has no right to intrude into the private realm of consensual behavior."
The Peters Principles: The management guru as playground director, provacateur, and passionate defender of open societies., Reason, Oct 1997
Related Topic: Tom Peters
"I sincerely believe that Hayek should have added free speech to his list of the big three, along with contracts, property rights, and so on. ... I just find it so ironic that the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich is essentially a captive of a very statist view of moral controls, which is antithetical to the freedoms I believe in."

Books Authored

The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress, 1998