JUST GOT A COPY OF VIRGINIA POSTREL’S NEW BOOK, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Remaking Commerce, Culture, and Consciousness in the mail. It looks quite good, and the cover is certainly more aesthetically pleasing than the cover of the other book that came in the mail: National Security and Military Law in a Nutshell, which is bound in attractive woodland camo.

I’ll blog more on Virginia’s book after I’ve actually, you know, read it. But since it’s by Virginia, it’s a safe bet that it’ll be worth reading.