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Danielle Allen

Danielle Allen is Director of the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics and Professor of Government and Education at Harvard University. Her next book, Justice by Means of Democracy, will be released in April 2023.

Articles

The U.S. federal system is flawed as it currently operates, but it is not destined to be unjust.

Danielle Allen

Forums

Preparation for democratic citizenship demands humanities education, not just STEM.

Danielle Allen

Forum Responses

I am grateful to all the respondents for their engaged, thoughtful, and challenging comments. I will begin by addressing two misunderstandings and then turn to the fundamental question uniting the responses. Deborah...
Danielle Allen
“Many well-meaning people who long for change have seized on [Michael] Brown’s death as a golden opportunity to organize,” Glenn Loury writes. They have seized this opportunity, he suggests, because there is...
Danielle Allen
Toward Participatory Democracy For most people, political equality today means formal political rights, such as the right to vote. This is a regrettably limited view. The right to vote is not an...
Danielle Allen

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