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Virginia Postrel (Virginia Inman) was born on 14 January, 1960 in Greenville, South Carolina, U.S., is an American political and cultural writer. Discover Virginia Postrel's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?
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Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. |
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United States
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Her husband is Steven Postrel
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Virginia Postrel Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Virginia Postrel worth at the age of 64 years old? Virginia Postrel’s income source is mostly from being a successful Author. She is from United States. We have estimated Virginia Postrel's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Virginia Inman Postrel (born January 14, 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views.
Inman graduated from Princeton University in 1982 with an A.B. in English literature.
Postrel was editor-in-chief of 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. and the Wall Street Journal.
She currently serves on the board of directors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE).
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.
She also appeared on the last episode of the third season of Penn and Teller's Bullshit!.
In March 2006 Postrel donated a kidney to an acquaintance, writer Sally Satel.
She has recounted the experience, and referred to it in several subsequent articles and blog posts, many of which are critical of legal prohibitions against compensating organ donors.
In some of the pieces, she discusses strategies for working around these restrictions, such as organ donor transplant chains.
In her March 2009 article "My Drug Problem" in The Atlantic, Postrel wrote about her own experience of being treated for breast cancer with the expensive drug Herceptin.
She questioned if such a costly treatment would be available to others and if the risky research that makes such innovative treatments possible would be profitable under the proposed health care reforms in the United States.
Postrel has also referred to her experience as a cancer patient in her writing about the importance of design aesthetics in hospitals and the competitive forces that drive them to create more attractive environments for patients.
This ties into the thesis of her second book, that beauty is more than simply a superficial, frivolous trait and can go more than skin deep.
Notions of beauty and desirability, and thoughts on what makes good design good beyond the needs of sound engineering, informed her work at the "Deep Glamour" blog.
She is a recipient of the Bastiat Prize (2011).
Virginia Inman was born and raised in Greenville, South Carolina.
Her father was an engineer, while her mother was a homemaker turned English professor, returning to school to pursue a Master's degree while Virginia was in high school.
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", a forward-looking and change-seeking philosophy that generally favors unregulated organization through "spontaneous order".
She contrasts it with "stasis", a philosophy that favors top-down control and regulation and is marked by desire to maintain the present state of affairs.
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."
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.
Postrel has written several articles on health care and bioethics, including accounts of her own experiences.