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Danielle Allen grew up, in her own words, \u201cin an opinionated, fractious, loving family.\u201d Her father, \u201clean and bald,\u201d was a rare Black Reagan Republican. Her aunt Roslyn, \u201clesbian and built like a Mack truck, with a huge belly laugh,\u201d was in the Peace and Freedom Party. They debated endlessly but respectfully.<\/p>\n

So wrote Allen in \u201cJustice by Means of Democracy,\u201d an important book that came out this year. Allen wrote that she took a little from her right-leaning dad and a little from her left-leaning aunt for the book. \u201cA bit of market, a bit of public sector, civic virtue and room for experimentalism,\u201d she wrote in the acknowledgments.<\/p>\n

Allen is a public intellectual. She has written, edited or contributed to 13 books. She\u2019s a contributing columnist at The Washington Post. She has doctorates in both government and classics. She is the director of the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. She was\u00a0featured<\/a>\u00a0on Ezra Klein\u2019s podcast in April. Oh, and she\u00a0ran for governor<\/a>\u00a0of Massachusetts in the 2022 election, dropping out early last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cJustice by Means of Democracy\u201d is clearly special to her, though. When the first copy from the publisher was delivered to her doorstep in March, she\u00a0tweeted<\/a>, \u201cA small green volume, a lifetime of work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danielle Allen grew up, in her own words, \u201cin an opinionated, fractious, loving family.\u201d Her father, \u201clean and bald,\u201d was a rare Black Reagan Republican. Her aunt Roslyn, \u201clesbian and built like a Mack truck, with a huge belly laugh,\u201d was in the Peace and Freedom Party. They debated endlessly but respectfully. 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