Jefferson’s prescience; Bartram’s spleen
Contrasting notes from my reading over the holiday. I found a passage in Peterson’s Jefferson that I think is pertinent to the current arguments about restrictions of liberty during wartime. Writing during his vice-presidency in the hostile Adams administration during a British war scare, concerning to the Alien and Sedition acts (which entrenched xenophobia in [...]
Other redesigns
Looks like Moxie is redesigning too. Her woes make mine look small by comparison. And Dave Sifry (of Technorati fame) did some redesign work as well, mostly back end.
Reactions, and clarification
George calls my new design “cleaner” and says the new graphic is “cool.” Greg tweaks me, pointing out in his “on the side link” that the site now, for the first time almost since its inception, “features [an] actual house.”
About that graphic (I’ll add this to the FAQ): the photo is not the Jarrett [...]
