Dhananjay jagannathan

Recent Writing for a Broad Audience

• Essays in Line of Beauty, a joint newsletter with Tara Isabella Burton - some recent essays concern:
• euthanasia and respect for life;
• animals and AI;
• poetry;
• the vices of curiosity & usury;
• why life is not a story;
• liberal education; and more!
• "What Canada's Euthanasia Advocates Ask Us to Believe" for Bulwark+
• "What is Our Scholarly Inheritance?" for Plough
• "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 VIRTUE magazine on intellectual tradition and community

Other Media

• 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

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See Also

my academic website, with information about publications