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Virginia Postrel

Virginia Postrel  (vpostrel.com) is the author of The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion. Her next book, The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World, will be published in November. She lives in Los Angeles.

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The Beauty of Fluid Motion

How the future became fashionable

by Virginia Postrel | Wednesday, May 20, 2020

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So Help Me God

by Ted Widmer

Many presidential traditions have remained the same over the years, but the inaugural address has evolved. As the nation watches Joe Biden sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, revisit Ted Widmer’s essay on what he found by reading each of the previous addresses.

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