Madison Vision Series

Dr. Danielle S. Allen is a political theorist who focuses on democratic theory, political sociology and the history of political thought. Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: the Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000), Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship since Brown vs. Board of Education (2004), Why Plato Wrote (2010) and Our Declaration (2014), and co-editor (with Rob Reich) of Education, Justice, and Democracy (2013).