Danielle Allen on the Enduring Relevance of the Constitution

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, where she also directs the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics. Her forthcoming book is Justice By Means of Democracy. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Danielle Allen discuss why the great American political texts of the 18th century can still inspire; how we can build a political system that invites more and more kinds of people to participate; and how such a form of "power-sharing liberalism" can reinvigorate our societies and promote human flourishing. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	In the 19th century this country had to kind of focus on this concept of internal improvements.
0:36.8	How do you put the infrastructure in place that give people the chance to stand up and build
0:40.2	a life for themselves?
0:41.6	I believe we should replace our kind of safety net conception
0:44.4	with that foundation of flourishing conception, that we should be invested in internal improvements
0:49.8	that yield an infrastructure pack that make it possible for people to stand up and find a pathway to flourishing.
0:56.0	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. The main reason for that is its format. I like holidays that have to do with family and with
1:16.8	togetherness, but many holidays in which that's true are sort of exclusive. If you are a member of the nuclear family you invited everybody else is not.
1:28.8	Thanksgiving is really meaningful to me because it does revolve around the family.
1:35.2	You do share a meal with the people you are close to.
1:39.2	But there's also a spirit of inclusion and of togetherness. There's a spirit of bringing friends, of inviting
1:47.8	a random struggle who's stuck in your town whom you may not know very well. In fact, the first Thanksgiving that I spent in the United States
1:55.9	was at the house of somebody who I seen twice in my life and who has since become a very good friend.
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