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Part 7: Day in Court

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Ryan Lizza
Dec 19, 2025
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If you are new to this series, start here with Part 1.

In The Divine Comedy, Dante placed fraud and treachery in the eighth and ninth circles of Hell—reserved for the gravest human sins—because they require the deliberate misuse of reason, the highest human faculty, turning the very gift that links humanity to God into an instrument of deception and betr…

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