July 12, 2003

Virginia Postrel's latest, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value Is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness is now available for order on Amazon. Her earlier The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict Over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress was one of the more important popular political theory books of the last few years. Postrel's writing has the great virtue of including lots of very helpful examples giving content to abstract ideas, a virtue every good writers genuinely respects because they know it takes hard work. The book also had the virtue of discussing ideas from Hayek in a fresh and compelling way.

Posted by Greg Ransom