Hamilton’s Moral Reckoning
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The episode explores Hamilton's late-in-life moral awakening influenced by pride, collapse, and faith.
Hamilton is easy to caricature: the brilliant operator, the relentless Federalist, the guy who never stops pushing. But the closer you look, the more the story bends toward something unexpected: a late-in-life moral awakening shaped by pride, collapse, and a real confrontation with faith. We sit down with Dr. Beienberg to follow Hamilton’s religious trajectory from early piety to a long stretch of indifference, then to a period in which he uses Christian language as a blunt political instrume...
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