A Christmas piece from Virginia Postrel: "All Christmas stockings used to be real hosiery. They weren’t made from velvet or felt or embroidered with the owner’s name. They featured no appliqués, needlepoint or glitter; no reindeer, snowflakes or trees. They were the same knitted socks their owners wore every day... Special socks just for receiving Christmas gifts would have been a wildly impractical extravagance."
From the Archives: Christmas Stockings Are an Industrial Triumph
And a new essay on meat grown from cells.
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