Dhananjay jagannathan

Recent Writing for a Broad Audience

• Essays in The Line of Beauty, a joint newsletter with Tara Isabella Burton - some recent essays of mine concern:
• representation in fiction;
• moral imagination;
• love of country;
• pubs;
• teaching and theater;
• and more!
• "Teaching the One Percent" for Plough Quarterly
• "Tradition and Community" for VIRTUE Magazine
• "What Canada's Euthanasia Advocates Ask Us to Believe" for Bulwark+
• "What is Our Scholarly Inheritance?" for Plough Quarterly
• "What's the ius?" (A review of Adrian Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism) for Commonweal
• "Morality and the Aims of Politics" for Earth & Altar
• "Music and Morals" for Plough Quarterly
• "Justice and the State: Against a Christian Caliphate" for Athwart
• "Choosing America" for Plough Quarterly
• "What is Reality?" for Earth & Altar
• "Courage, Citizenship, and the Limits of Autonomy" for Breaking Ground [chosen for publication in a volume of essays on the pandemic edited by Susannah Black and Anne Snyder]
• "Expectation and Narrative: Reflections on Advent" for Earth & Altar
• "What to an Immigrant is the Third of November?" for Breaking Ground
• "The Politics of Polyphonic Singing" for Plough Quarterly
• & a forthcoming essay for Comment magazine on private property and the commons.

Other Media

• Audio conversation on the novel with Tara Isabella Burton, Phil Christman, and Trevor Cribben Merrill (The Line of Beauty)
• Podcast on inheritance and legacy for PloughCast with Susannah Black and Peter Mommsen
• Podcast on Rooted Cosmopolitanism for PloughCast
• Panelist, Roundtable on Populism, The Helix Center
• Should Some Books Not Be Read? A Veritas Forum discussion with Tara Isabella Burton
• Interview on Augustine's Confessions for the Writ Large podcast with Zack Davis
• Lecture on the Anti-Moral Imagination of Michel Houellebecq for the Morningside Institute
• Interview on Sophocles and Greek Tragedy for the Sacred & Profane Love podcast with Jennifer Frey

Contact Info

email

See Also

my academic website, with information about publications 

Representation

I am represented by the Rebecca Carter Literary Agency.