Something To Chew On

 In a review of the latest Matrix movie, Manohla Dargis wrote of the series that

It also provided grist for reams of articles, dissertations and scholarly books ("The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real"), taking its place as one of contemporary pop culture's supreme interpretive chew toys.

This brought to mind a passage from one of Henry Adams's letters, written to Hugh Blair Grigsby on October 9, 1877:

Dear old Jefferson! Never was there a more delightful ground for people to argue about! We discuss him here by the day together, just as though he were alive. We can fight about him as ardently as ever. He is supremely useful still (he and Hamilton) as a sort of bone for students of history to mumble, preparatory to getting their teeth.

 Well, Lin-Manuel Miranda has brought Hamilton back for pop culture interpretation, with I suppose Jefferson tagging along.