The Renovator
Danielle Allen, Adam Harper, Aidan Fitzsimons, Gideon Lichfield, Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, Beth Fukumoto, Meredith Sumpter, Joanna Kenty, Malcolm Salter, Zachey Kliger, Marcela Miranda-PrietoThe Renovator is a Substack for everyone who wants to help renovate our democracy.
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We’ve Solved Polarization!
Some 87 percent of Americans are tired of how divided we are politically.
Here in Massachusetts, we’ve at last discovered how to get the two parties onto the same page. It turns out to be simple. Challenge their political duopoly — also kn...
Civic Education News Roundup: Young Leaders' Letters to America and lots more.
The next few people who join at the Founder level of $300 per year (aka The Elm Society) will all receive a copy of Radical Duke signed by Danielle. We still have a few signed copies left!
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We’re off to a great start with our...
Liberty and Abundance
Liberty and Abundance
Proposing a bipartisan alliance to break the Scarcity Cartel
Without realizing it, we replaced a Liberty-and-Abundance republic with a Permission-and-Scarcity republic. Permission is what liberty becomes when it c...
What was civic education, and what can it become?
From Peter Levine: We teach and work in many different disciplines, institutions, and political contexts, and we bring our own interests and motivations to this work, as we should. No one course, center, or program addresses every dimension...
The Union of Power and Love
Video and transcript from Harvard University Professor Rebecca Henderson’s keynote speech at the “After Neoliberalism: From Left to Right” conference.
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Authors
The writers behind this newsletter.
The founder of The Renovator, Danielle Allen, is a Harvard prof and democracy advocate working on democracy renovation 24-7.
I am a lawyer from rural Georgia who has worked on voting rights at the U.S. Department of Justice, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and Harvard’s Election Law Clinic. I write about democracy, constitutional law, and the discipline of political power.
Adventuring around America in pursuit of the Great American Novel
Most recently editor-in-chief of WIRED, now independent, writing FUTUREPOLIS on the reinvention of democratic governance for the 21st century. More at gideonlichfield.com
CEO, RepresentUs. Working for a US government that's accountable to the people, not just the powerful. Global anti-corruption, pro-democracy advocate, attorney. Author: "There Are No Dead Here: A Story of Murder and Denial in Colombia"
Apolitical’s “100 Future Leaders: The World’s Most Influential Young People in Government.” 3-term State Legislator. Once, the youngest woman to lead a major party in a US legislature. Now, political columnist & strategic comms consultant.
FairVote CEO
Roman empire nerd, random fact generator, kitchen wizard, proud Philadelphian
Professor Emeritus, Harvard Business School
Policy writer and communications professional covering tech, AI, and democracy.
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