Alexander Hamilton

Who is the father of American capitalism?

Alexander Hamilton always believed that the providential protection that kept the small Jewish world alive would embrace his own extraordinary nation.

The U.S. Constitution was the reason for Madison and Hamilton's breakup.

Far from a partisan for free markets, the Founding Father insisted on the need for economic planning. We need more of that vision today.

Throughout his career, Hamilton acted as a middleman for his family and friends to purchase enslaved people.

In “Radical Hamilton,” Christian Parenti argues that the left should use Alexander Hamilton’s mythologized status to drive home his full agenda.

Why did Alexander Hamilton and James Madison take up the cause of the very thing that revolutionaries had vehemently opposed?

Beyond “Hamilton”: How the friends turned into political rivals, and finally into mortal enemies.

An interview with a historian of Hamilton. That is, an “interview” in the modern sense of questions and answers and not in the Hamilton-Burr sense of pistols at dawn.

Too often, we look to history not to understand it, but to seek out confirmation for our preexisting beliefs. That’s a problem.

America's founders have never enjoyed more sex appeal, but the hit Musical cheats audiences by making democracy look easy

Why liberals have embraced our most dangerously reactionary founder.

Has the celebrated musical eclipsed the man himself?

Why Broadway's biggest villain is worth a second look.

Read an excerpt from TIME's special edition about Alexander Hamilton.

The troubling embrace of the founder of American finance.

America’s early leaders were worried not only about demagogues like Donald Trump, but about the rise of an antidemocratic, wealthy elite that goads such men on.

America’s only successful insurrection.

While letting justices serve during “good behavior” was designed to encourage impartiality, it now tends to promote the opposite effect.

America long ago rejected the trappings of monarchy in favor of republicanism, but many have wanted to have it both ways.