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Widely known for her work on justice and citizenship in ancient Athens and its application to modern America, Danielle Allen is the author of The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens (2000) and Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown vs. the Board of Education (2004). In 2002 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship for her ability to combine "the classicist's careful attention to texts and language with the political theorist's sophisticated and informed engagement." Allen's plans for future work include a theoretical study of politics and change; an historical study of Platonic political thought; an examination of the concept of equality; and a theoretical study of democracy, knowledge and higher education.  But alleged genius Danielle Allen will not be publishing a book on why Barack Hussein Obama's Kenyan family still has not learned in the last 2000 plus years from ancient Greek and Roman cultures how and why they should not get their drinking and bathing water downstream from where the wildlife chooses to daily relieve itself..... |