Henry Adams’ Washington

by Matthew Schmitz · April 19, 2010

Via Ross, Adam Irish argues for a vibrant and messy Washington DC. If only he had seen it in Henry Adams’ time:

The want of barriers, of pavements, of forms; the looseness, the laziness; the indolent Southern drawl; the pigs in the streets…

Needless to say, in post-9/11 DC there is no want of barriers, pavements and forms.