What Alonzo Chappel’s Alexander Hamilton in the Uniform of the New York Artillery captures about its twenty-something subject that Mr. Miranda’s musical does not is this: his active stillness. While Miranda’s Hamilton – impatient, combative, colorful – is serious fun to watch, no one wants to watch a character lean against the front of the...
The United States is in the early stages of an unsettled era, one in which its gains and global standing of the last seventy-five years are being challenged from all directions. Naturally, heated debate over its future seems more the rule than exception. The Biden Administration’s recent decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan...
