Portland Is Not Your Punching Bag
Portland is not what right-wing fever dreams make it out to be.
Jacob Grier
Jacob Grier writes about drinks, public policy, and other vices in Portland, Oregon.
In Defense of “Yard-Sign Libertarianism”
"No Human is Illegal" is an ideal we can appeal to, however imperfectly it is put into practice.
To My Fellow Libertarians: It's Time to Embrace the Harris-Walz Ticket
Libertarians, long used to holding their noses to pick the lesser evil or abstaining entirely, now have plenty of reasons for enthusiasm.
The Carceral Politics of Menthol Prohibitionism
It’s hard to imagine that the country that gave birth to Big Tobacco may soon sentence Americans to prison for selling menthol cigarettes or flavored e-cigarettes. Yet in states that have forbidden these products, arrests and prosecutions are already occurring. The Food and Drug Administration is also expected to
Respecting the Agency of Smokers: the Liberalism of Harms Reduction and the Illiberalism of Prohibitionism
Two years ago, I published my book The Rediscovery of Tobacco, in which I made a case for taking a liberal approach to tobacco regulation with an emphasis on encouraging harm reduction. The timing coincided with a low point for the cause in the United States. A deadly outbreak of