What would Alexander Hamilton do today?

Despite dying in a duel 212 years ago, Alexander Hamilton is in the news today…

Unless you’ve seen the sold-out Broadway musical, read the news articles of the cast’s message to Mike Pence (or Donald Trump’s tweets in response), you probably won’t know much about Hamilton. Even if you have been following, it’s still easy to miss the huge lesson he left us.

As a Hamilton myself, I’ve spent years tracking back my family tree to the beginning of the Scottish Hamilton Clan, and then forward to di...