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- Virginia_Postrel abstract "Virginia Inman Postrel (born January 14, 1960) is an American political and cultural writer of broadly libertarian, or classical liberal, views.She is best known for her non-fiction books, 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.”".