She’s the author of several books that span in a broad variety of topics, such as “The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion”, “The Substance of Style (2003)” and “The Future and Its Enemies (1998)”. She is columnist for Bloomberg View and writes a bimonthly column on history and material culture for Reason. In 2011 she received the Bastiat Prize, honoring journalism that displays «support for the institutions of the free society, persuasiveness, wit and creativity, relevance, and clarity and simplicity.»