Lin-Manuel Miranda's rightfully lauded hip-hop musical "Hamilton," which has just opened on Broadway after a smash run at the Public, is about many things, among them men: how they fight, write, rule, and duel. There's some strange comfort, in this age of Washington gridlock, in seeing the birth of the nation recast as a series of rap battles straight out of "8 Mile," with Hamilton, Jefferson, and Burr’s ego…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 06:45AM on August 7, 2015