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Zócalo Book Prize Winner Danielle Allen Loves John Adams

Danielle Allen is the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and a professor of government at Harvard. She won Zócalo’s fifth annual book prize earlier this year, when she was UPS Foundation professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Before delivering her lecture on how the Declaration of Independence can help Americans relearn how to talk and think about equality, she talked about her affinity for nutty cheeses, mock pear trees in Princeton, and the last time she watched TV …