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Virginia Postrel
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L.A. writer, Smith Inst . THE FABRIC OF CIVILIZATION . POWER OF GLAMOUR, SUBSTANCE OF STYLE, FUTURE & ITS ENEMIES. vpostrel.substack.com
West L.A.vpostrel.comBorn January 14Joined January 2009

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I remember my grandmother darning socks while watching TV, using an egg-shaped gourd to hold the shape.
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We are excited to welcome interdisciplinary artist Camila Salcedo for four workshops in February and March to show you how to mend and repurpose socks! Space is limited so buy your tickets now! batashoemuseum.ca/event/sock-men
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I'm broadly interested in "conscious extinction" – identifying species of animals, microbes and plants that we can eradicate to make the world better. We've done it with rinderpest & smallpox, and should probably do it to HIV & the mosquito species that bite humans. What else?
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I 100 percent agree. And whenever I’ve taught Between the World and Me, the students’ responses are extraordinarily complex and oftentimes completely surprising.
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To exclude Ta-Nehisi Coates from any high school course on African American studies is to deny American teenagers a rich part of their own heritage. King Baldwin Coates Do these men build on, or challenge each other's ideas? Jesus Christ, America. Save yourself.
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Good news. If you don’t know Westwood Village you have no idea what an achievement this is.
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North Westwood NC voted to approve a conditional use permit at former Napa Valley Grill site in Westwood, for STK w/ liquor use, outdoor seats, & live entertainment(live music). It'll be their flagship location in Los Angeles,(if approved by Planning Commission + Council Office)
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This, from McCloskey: "I thank Arthur M. Diamond, Jr. of the University of Nebraska Omaha for his detailed and illuminating comments on a draft, and not Jeffrey Friedman." ?????
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@ccoyne1⁩ ⁦@Springernomics⁩ The Review of Austrian Economics | Volume 35, issue 4 … McCloskey on Schumpeter; Holcombe on Creative Destruction link.springer.com/journal/11138/
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Very interesting thread.
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This article represents failing of drug industry to make its case to public & failing of journalists to grasp what they are really writing about. Hospitals are laundering their expenses through drugs prices at the expense of innovation. @IAmBiotech @WSJ wsj.com/articles/340b-
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Important thread
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People on the right have this weird idea that, because the left dominates the media/academia and will therefore treat them badly no matter what, they don't have to be rigorous or police their own ranks by calling out crackpots, when in fact the opposite is true. 1/n
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Forgetting my own post, I at first thought this was an extension of the cultivated meat reaction discussion and wondered who he was quoting.
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"I think that politically-convenient narratives compromise a person’s credibility with fair-minded people. Sharp people recognize the shell game; they notice the effort to sweep idiocy from one’s own side under the rug." This post is really good. twitter.com/vpostrel/statu…
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this isn't said enough, esp around here: "if you want to live in a world where ideas are debated on their own merits and in a good-faith manner, you have to behave that way yourself, despite the powerful cultural and economic incentives not to."
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So Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit quoted my post on the reaction to my cultivated meat story. instapundit.com/565338/ Once solidly dynamist, Glenn is now 80% culture warrior. So his reaction is:
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Very excited to share some big news! I'm curating #FashionCity Docklands, with external advisor . The exhibition tells the stories of London's Jewish fashion makers, designers & retailers through the 20thC. RT to help us find some key missing objects👇
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📢 We're on the lookout for iconic pieces of #fashion history for our upcoming exhibition #FashionCity: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style. Can you help us find David Bowie's dress from the cover of The Man Who Sold the World? © Trinity Mirror/Mirrorpix/Alamy Stock
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Black & white photo. David Bowie stands in the garden of a large house, in the iconic dress he wore on the cover of The Man Who Sold the World.
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