{"author":"Virginia Postrel","author_id":"Virginia+Postrel","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"In post-Vietnam, post-Watergate America, skeptical voters demand full disclosure of everything from candidates' finances to their medical records, and spin-savvy accounts of backstage machinations dominate political coverage.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["america","political","records "],"id":3761,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"Religion, art, and science flourish best in a free society. True, freedom does not afford much opportunity for grand gestures. It has little room for martyrs. But life is not supposed to be about dying well. It is about living well.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["life","art","freedom "],"id":7374,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["culture","world","choices "],"id":26322,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"The growth of medical expenditures in the U.S. Is not caused by administrative costs but by increases in the technical intensity of care over time - a.K.A. Medical progress.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["time","growth","progress "],"id":34331,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["history","home","people "],"id":44575,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"We've gone from a world in which Starbucks set a cutting-edge standard for mass-market design to a world in which Starbucks establishes the bare minimum. If your establishment can't come up with an original look, customers expect at least some sleek wood fixtures, nicely upholstered chairs, and faux-Murano glass pendant lights.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["world","wood","glass "],"id":53735,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["children","future","good "],"id":66777,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"Unlike painting, sculpture, or music, typefaces must be useful to someone. Fortunately for designers, the digital age has produced new problems to solve - developing typefaces that work on mobile phones, for one - and enabled better solutions to old problems.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["work","music","problems "],"id":113609,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["work","children","freedom "],"id":122522,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"},{"text":"The Y2K bug is a genuine technical concern, consuming the energies of many specialists. But the prophecies of doom represent a broader worldview using the bug as a news hook. In this vision, the good society is a stable society, undisrupted by innovation, ambition or outside influences.","author":"Virginia Postrel","tags":["good","innovation","vision "],"id":132382,"author_id":"Virginia+Postrel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}