Ask a Political Scientist Symposium on the Contributions of Danielle Allen: Introduction.

Barndt commends Allen most of all for how her example prompts us to consider and choose among many possible ways of pursuing both intellectual insights and the achievement of common goods, rather than presenting Allen's way as the model that all political theorists, much less all academics, should follow. Keywords: Danielle Allen; democracy; justice; civic education; human well-being EN Danielle Allen democracy justice civic education human well-being 836 843 8 10/03/23 20231001 NES 231001 When I entered graduate school at Harvard in 1975 as part of a strongly felt but ill-specified quest for personal and political meaning, I had no clear sense of what constituted "academic success.". [Extracted from the article]