Lawrie Balfour

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Lawrie Balfour teaches politics and American studies at the University of Virginia. The author of The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy and Democracy’s Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois, she has served as editor of Political Theory since 2017.