250 years later, Harvard’s Danielle Allen explains what the Declaration still teaches us.
250 years later, what can we learn from reading the Declaration of Independence?
To find out, we sat down with Danielle Allen, a political philosopher and professor at Harvard University, where she directs the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and the Democratic Knowledge Project.
She’s spent a lot of time reviewing — and teaching — the document and its historical context. She spoke to its lasting significance as a guide to civic engagement and the challenges modern readers may encounter when approaching the text anew. And she argues that the drafters intended its values to apply to everyone, not just a narrow segment of the population.
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