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The Glamour of Jihadi Terrorism 31 Jul 2013 | 01:10 pm
No sooner had Rolling Stone put Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover, looking doe-eyed and rock-star disheveled, than critics denounced the editors for "glamorizing terrorism...
Life Is More Interesting than Fiction, Mr. Selfridge Edition 6 Apr 2013 | 01:44 am
The TV show Mr. Selfridge, discussed in my most recent Bloomberg View column, is very loosely based on the biography Shopping, Seduction & Mr. Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead. One thing that becomes clear...
Shopping for Pleasure: Why Department Stores Mattered 6 Apr 2013 | 01:11 am
In my latest Bloomberg View column, I use the new PBS show Mr. Selfridge (preview video above) as an excuse to delve into the history of department stores--which, like the history of consumption in g...
My Recent Lecture: "Meaning and Value in Commercial Culture" 2 Apr 2013 | 05:14 am
The Design Criticism program at the School of Visual Arts in New York recently invited me to give a lecture, followed by a lively Q&A period. Here's the video. Virginia Postrel, "Meaning and Value in ...
Is Honda Making Incremental Progress Glamorous? 8 Jan 2013 | 11:35 am
I think it works.
Did George Lucas Read Vogue? 26 Dec 2012 | 02:10 am
While doing research in issues of Vogue from 1974, I found this familiar-seeming ad for a "luxury fabric from the 21st Century."
Why Do We Miss Flying Cars but Not Robot Maids? 17 Dec 2012 | 06:48 am
It looks like suburbia, but it still represents escape. In my new Bloomberg View column, I criticize the trendy denigration of technological progress that doesn't solve "big problems" like going to Ma...
Was Robert Frost a Dixiecrat? 14 Dec 2012 | 01:25 pm
Perusing the catalog for Profiles in History's Hollywood auction on Saturday, I was struck by lot #208: "Robert Frost signed book to Strom Thurmond." Neither Robert Frost nor Strom Thurmond is someone...
Robert Frost's Estate Does Use Copyright to Crush Use of "Stopping by Woods..." 1 Dec 2012 | 12:54 am
In response to my Bloomberg View column on copyright excesses, my college classmate Joanne Karohl posted the following comment: Since Frost poems were mentioned in the article, I wanted to mention an ...
Dynamists Unite! How Republicans Can Work With Obama 30 Nov 2012 | 03:23 am
Writing in Forbes, Rich Karlgaard explains the dynamist-stasist dichotomy I developed in The Future and Its Enemies and argues that it offers the best way for Republicans to think about how to work wi...
