Editing Virginia Postrel (section)

==Career==
Postrel was editor-in-chief of ''[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]'' from July 1989 to January 2000, and remained on the masthead as editor-at-large through 2001. Prior to that, she was a reporter for ''[[Inc. Magazine|Inc.]]'' and the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://vpostrel.com/about |title= Virginia Postrel's bio |publisher= vpostrel.com |access-date= 2018-04-14}}</ref> She currently serves on the board of directors of the [[Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression]] (FIRE).<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.thefire.org/about-us/board-of-directors-page/ |title= Board of Directors - The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education |publisher= FIRE |date= 2003-12-19 |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref> From 2000 to 2006, she wrote an economics column for the ''[[New York Times]]'' and from 2006 to 2009 she wrote the "Commerce and Culture" column for ''[[The Atlantic]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.theatlantic.com/virginia-postrel/ |title= Virginia Postrel - Authors |publisher= The Atlantic |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref> She also appeared on the last episode of the third season of [[Penn Jillette|Penn]] and [[Teller (magician)|Teller]]'s ''[[Penn & Teller: Bullshit!|Bullshit!]]''.

Postrel wrote the biweekly column "Commerce & Culture" for the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' until April 2011. Since May 2011, she has written a biweekly column for ''Bloomberg View''.

She is best known for her [[non-fiction]] books including ''[[The Future and Its Enemies]]'' and ''The Substance of Style''. In the former she explains her philosophy, "[[dynamism (metaphysics)|dynamism]]", a forward-looking and change-seeking [[philosophy]] that generally favors unregulated organization through "[[spontaneous order]]". She contrasts it with "[[stasis (rhetoric)|stasis]]", a philosophy that favors top-down control and [[regulation]] and is marked by desire to maintain the present state of affairs.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://dynamist.com/tfaie/index.html |title= The Future and Its Enemies by Virginia Postrel |publisher= Dynamist.com |access-date= 2013-10-01}}</ref> In November 2013, she published a third book, ''The Power of Glamour'', which defined glamour as "nonverbal rhetoric" that "leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more."<ref>{{cite web |last=Silber |first=Kenneth |date=2013-11-01 |url=http://quicksilber.blogspot.com/2013/11/review-power-of-glamour.html |title=Review: The Power of Glamour |website=Quicksilber |access-date=2013-11-07}}</ref> And, in November 2020, she published her fourth book, ''The Fabric of Civilization''. This book looks at the "history of innovation, science, technology, trade, and human history in general" through the lens of the global development of textiles.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-03-19|title=Celebrating Progress and Combating Complacency: An Interview with Virginia Postrel|url=https://theobjectivestandard.com/2021/03/celebrating-progress-and-combating-complacency-an-interview-with-virginia-postrel/|access-date=2021-03-23|website=The Objective Standard}}</ref>