This Saturday, October 18, is the next No Kings protest in the United States and around the world. Millions of people are going to show up for it. You should be one of them. I say this as someone who is not a natural protester. I’m a writer and my default mode of political activism is sitting in a coffeeshop writing words on my laptop, figuring out precisely what I want to say, and putting it out in a magazine or blog to reach whomever wants to read it. (Which is what I’m doing right now ...| Liquidity Preference
In 2023, I got the idea to bike to 100 different coffeeshops in Portland. I wasn’t actually sure that there were 100 shops worth going to, but it seemed possible, and by the end of the year I’d reached my goal and still hadn’t made it to every shop I’d like to visit. Writing about the project, it turns out, was a more difficult endeavor. It could have been just a story about coffee, but every time I sat down to write about it, I felt like it also needed to tie into right-wing delusion...| Liquidity Preference
Jacob Grier writes about public policy, lifestyle, and books in Portland, Oregon. His own books are The New Prohibition, Raising the Bar (with Brett Adams), The Rediscovery of Tobacco, and Cocktails on Tap. He has written for a wide spectrum of publications, including Slate, Reason, The Atlantic, The Washington Examiner, Inside Hook, Imbibe, and many others.| Liquidity Preference
Lots of recent articles I haven’t shared here yet! First up, I’m in the Unpopulist talking about Superman, MAGA, and Grant Morrison:| www.jacobgrier.com
Lots of recent articles I haven’t shared here yet! First up, I’m in the Unpopulist talking about Superman, MAGA, and Grant Morrison:| Liquidity Preference
Back in 2022, I wrote a big feature for Reason magazine about how tobacco policies were tipping past mere regulation to enter a new era of actual prohibition. As part of that story, I interviewed drug policy expert Ethan Nadelmann. Here’s what he had to say: “I think that people in tobacco control, including in […]| Liquidity Preference
I have a really fun new feature at Slate digging into some very strange coffees:The weirdest coffee I’ve ever tasted is one I found at a coffee shop in Portland, Oregon, last fall. Like many c| Liquidity Preference
Over at Liberal Currents, I have a new piece up on Portland, protests, and pardons, defending the city from right-wing stereotypes and making the case that the 2020 protests here in no way justify Trump’s mass pardon of the Capitol rioters: If one insists on drawing comparisons, it’s also worth emphasizing that the 2020 protests […]| Liquidity Preference
2024 was the best year for seeing live music I’ve ever had, especially since I got to share it with my wonderful girlfriend who’s always up for a concert. Somehow we made it to more than 40 shows together. To remember it, we made a playlist with a song each from 59 artists we got […]| Liquidity Preference
As always, these are the books I enjoyed most in 2024, not necessarily books that were released this year.Non-fictionQuestion 7, Richard Flanagan -- A (mostly) non-fiction book from an incred| Liquidity Preference
Once or twice a year I like to make a playlist of recent music I’ve been digging. Here’s the latest, covering the last six months or so. See my summer playlist for the first half of the year!| Liquidity Preference
