Peeking into the rock

I don't know how many people regularly follow Patrick's sidelights at Making Light, but today there's a really interesting one: Nathan Newman talks about why Ulysses S. Grant might be our best president, and why we don't mostly think so.

The short version: Ulysses S. Grant did more than any other president to promote equal rights and democracy, and his history has been buried and his reputation has been smeared by the forces which defeated Reconstruction.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to get an RSS feed for this guy Nathan Newman. He's hot stuff.