Virginia Postrel

6 days ago | dwell.com | Virginia Postrel

View 3 PhotosMore than two decades ago, we wrote about what it means to restore an architectural classic, using superfans of the legendary midcentury tract houses as a case study. View 3 PhotosAs a part of our 25th-anniversary celebration, we’re republishing formative magazine stories from before our website launched. This story previously appeared in Dwell’s January/February 2004 issue. In the 1950s and 196os, developer Joseph Eichler brought modern architecture to mass-market suburban houses.

6 days ago | yahoo.com | Virginia Postrel

More than two decades ago, we wrote about what it means to restore an architectural classic, using superfans of the legendary midcentury tract houses as a case study. As a part of our 25th-anniversary celebration, we’re republishing formative magazine stories from before our website launched. This story previously appeared in Dwell’s January/February 2004 issue. In the 1950s and 196os, developer Joseph Eichler brought modern architecture to mass-market suburban houses.

1 week ago | reason.com | Virginia Postrel

Deregulation Progressives used to believe in building more stuff. Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson want to do that again.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Virginia Postrel

Abundance, by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 304 pages, $30At the turn of the 20th century, labor leader Samuel Gompers had many specific demands, including job security and an eight-hour day. But his list of "what labor wants" added up to a single overarching—and open-ended—desire. "We want more," Gompers said in an 1890 speech. "We do want more.

1 month ago | vpostrel.substack.com | Virginia Postrel

There was an error in one of the links in this article so I’m sending it out again. As Donald Trump disrupts international trade, sends suspected gangsters to indeterminate imprisonment in a Salvadoran hellhole without due process, wages war on the right to counsel, abandons American allies, and throws Ukraine under the bus—as Donald Trump does, in other words, pretty much what he promised—I haven’t written anything about this mess beyond retweeting the work of more energetic writers.