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Danielle Allen

Sunday 20th of September 2026

Elites That Elon Musk has been able to dominate the world’s space-based satellite systems — and global communications infrastructure — with little pushback from nation-states speaks to extraordinary capture of our political possibilities by microscopically small elites. Danielle Allen, The New Republic, July/August 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Liberalism [T]he future of power-sharing liberalism depends on a project of democracy renovation that would reverse the dynamics of capture of our political system by small elites (wealth elites, radicalized MAGA acolytes, and hyperpolarized party bases). Democracy renovation requires a set of critical reforms to rebalance and spread the allocation of power in our political system. Danielle Allen, The New Republic, July/August 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
Liberalism There was also a near supermajority decision in Florida to restore voting rights to people with some past felony convictions. Similarly, robust majority coalitions resting on cross-  ideological alliances have protected reproductive freedom in states like Kansas and Ohio. Each of these decisions is about affirming not material well-being but core freedoms (personal and political) and inclusion in the political community.  This is liberalism. Twenty-first century liberalism. Power-sharing liberalism. … The commentariat perhaps fails to see this grassroots rebirth of liberalism because the rebirth is so much about political, personal, and civil rights and not economic rights. Danielle Allen, The New Republic, July/August 2024 © 2024 Kwiple.com
 
State of the union The simple fact of the matter is that the world has never built a multiethnic democracy in which no particular ethnic group is in the majority and where political equality, social equality and economies that empower all have been achieved. We are engaged in a fight over whether to work together to build such a world. Danielle Allen, Washington Post, August 13, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com