The Future and Its Enemies

by Virginia Postrel

‘I’ve cited this book many times in explaining to people who have looked at our approach to governance here in our little two per cent of America, Indiana. They struggle to put a label on us because we look a little different and we don’t throw around the terms that are usually used in politics. I sometimes use her nomenclature – dynamism versus stasism. There are plenty of people who we would describe as conservatives these days who are very uncomfortable with the risks and the uncertainties that come with an embrace of competition and change and simple rules.’