Danielle Allen

Danielle Allen is a contributing writer at The Atlantic. She is a professor at Harvard University, the founder and publisher of The Renovator Substack, and the author of the forthcoming book Radical Duke: How One Aristocrat—And the American Revolution—Transformed Britain, which will be published in June.

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  1. What the 18th Century Can Teach the 21st

    Britain had a revolution too—slower and quieter than America’s. Did the British do it better?

    Danielle Allen
    A collage of images including a soldier in red white and blue, the US Capitol building, portraits of Thomas Paine and Charles Grey, and the British Parliament.
    Illustration by Alisa Gao / The Atlantic. Sources: Bildagentur-online / Universal Images Group / Getty; Carol M. Highsmith / Library of Congress; Library of Congress.

  4. The Problem With $TRUMP

    Democracy is for “we, the people”—not “them, the owners of memecoins.”

    Danielle Allen
    Illustration showing Trump and stock market imagery
    Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Getty; Michael M. Santiago / Getty.

  7. The Flawed Genius of the Constitution

    The document counted my great-great-grandfather as three-fifths of a free person. But the Framers don’t own the version we live by today. We do. The document is our responsibility now.

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    Djeneba Aduayom