Excellent piece by Adam Gopnik a few years ago about why coffee and cafés specifically we such a drastic social change: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018

Excellent piece by Adam Gopnik a few years ago about why coffee and cafés specifically we such a drastic social change: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/what-cafes-did-for-liberalism https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/24/what-cafes-did...