Articles
2010
Obamacare’s menu labeling scheme won’t work — The Washington Times, 1/27/10
2009
Where there’s smoke, there’s overregulation — The Oregonian, 12/30/09
Don’t ban e-cigs — The Oregonian, 08/04/09 (letter)
The wages of sin taxes — Lars Locked and Loaded, 03/09/09
Banning smoking in Oregon — Doublethink, 1/19/09
2008
Let’s not pretend it’s about saving lives — The Oregonian, 12/30/08
Sweet 21 — The American Spectator, 12/05/08
The rise (and fall?) of a caffeine empire — Doublethink, Fall 2008
Banned foods and misinformed consumers: Ban the bans — LATimes.com, 6/20/08
Is eating locally a crock? Eat ‘em raw! — LATimes.com, 6/19/08
Is famine coming? Blame subsidies and trade restrictions for the food shortage — LATimes.com, 6/18/08
Is the FDA A-OK or MIA? Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour — LATimes.com, 6/17/08
Are rotten tomatoes the future? Don’t panic — LATimes.com, 6/16/08
Raw milk rebellion — Reason Online, 5/16/08
Smoking ban unfair, insulting — Detroit Free Press, 5/15/08
Blowing smoke (letter) — The Washington Times, 2/20/08
Please Do Smoke, If You Like — The Washington Post, 1/20/08 (with Thomas Firey)
2007
Boosting tobacco tax won’t serve kids’ health — Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/12/07 (with Thomas Firey)
Children, say “Thank you for smoking” — TCSDaily.com, 11/8/07 (with Thomas Firey)
2006
Autonomy — ThinkForYourself.org, Summer 2006
2005
Board Spotlight: VSC’s Tim Boyd… Behind the Accent — Tunnel Vision, 2004-2005 Special Double Issue (.pdf file, see pg. 11)
2004
Two Roads Diverged in a Starry Night — The Torch, April 2004
Libertarians and Conservatives: Breaking Up is Hard to Do — The Torch, March 2004
Dust settles on Kennewick Man — The Torch, February 2004
Campaign finance reform: Silencing the critics — The Torch, January 2004
2003
An Experiment in education — The Free Liberal, December-January 2003-04
Homeless in the War on Terror — The Torch, 11/14/03
To Heal a broken school system — The Torch, 10/17/03
A Queer eye for change: Good for gays, good for liberty — The Torch, 9/19/03
Board Spotlight: Bringing improvements to student media — Tunnel Vision, Spring 2003 (.pdf file, see pg. 7)
From the Editor: The Final rant – The Torch, 4/15/03
From the Editor: Freedom of the student press — The Torch, 3/24/03
From the Editor: A Valentine from The Torch — The Torch, 2/14/03
From the Editor: The Clone Wars: The Debate comes to the U. S. — The Torch, 1/17/03
2002
From the Editor: The Mathematics of slave reparations — The Torch, 12/13/02
From the Editor: The Libertarian Party: Still at the margins of politics — The Torch, 11/18/02
Interdisciplinary classes invite innovative thinking — The Vanderbilt Hustler, 10/29/02
From the Editor: Deciding death, democratically — The Torch, 10/23/02
From the Editor: The Pledge becomes post-modern — The Torch, 9/16/02
The Torch: Year One — The Torch, 4/18/02
From the Editor: Bush saves his political capital for… something? Anything? — The Torch, 4/18/02
Letter to the Editor regarding campaign finance reform — The Vanderbilt Hustler, 4/02/02
From the Editor: School choice and the Constitution — The Torch, 3/13/02
http://www.vutorch.org/v1i2/RCs.htm — The Torch, 2/13/02
2001
From the Editor: Civil obedience — The Torch, 11/28/01
Jacob Grier is a freelance writer, barista, mixologist, and magician in Portland, OR. He writes, eats, and drinks a lot. His articles have appeared in The Washington Post, Reason Online, The Oregonian, and other publications.
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