The Trouble with Unity

Was honored—am honored—to participate in a just-posted Crooked Timber online seminar discussing Danielle Allen’s recent book Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. Accompanying a series of critical essays by Heather Gerken, Chris Lebron, James Miller, and others are Danielle's responses and a growing stream of thoughtful reader comments. My entry is entitled "Slow Reading as a Practice of Reckoning with Love and Loss"; Danielle responds to it here.