Author: Allen Danielle Allen

"Don’t talk to strangers" is the advice long given to children by parents of all classes and races. Today it has blossomed into a fundamental precept of civic education, reflecting interrac …

How have online protests-like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood-changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social med …

From a leading political thinker, this book is both an invaluable playbook for meeting our current moment and a stirring reflection on the future of democracy itself. The COVID-19 pandemic has demons …

Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree o …

From leading thinker Danielle Allen, a bold and urgent articulation of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism. At a time of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of th …