Dhananjay jagannathan

Recent Writing for a Broad Audience

• Upcoming
• an essay on sacred music and belief for Commonweal (September 2025)
• an essay on trust in news journalism for Preamble (Summer 2025)
• On the crisis at Columbia University
• Columns and Op-Eds in the Columbia Daily Spectator
• Two Visions for the University (Apr. 21, 2025)
• Appeasement (Apr. 2, 2025), reprinted with revisions in The Chronicle of Higher Education as Appeasing Trump is not the Answer
• Self-Governance is Hard Work (Mar. 9, 2025)
• The next Columbia president should be a humanist (Sep. 18, 2024)
• Other Commentary
• on the crisis of academic freedom at Columbia for the Blog of the APA (April 3, 2025)
• on campus protest (Mar. 27, 2025)
• on the freedom to inquire (Dec. 20, 2023)
• Essays in The Line of Beauty, a joint newsletter with Tara Isabella Burton - some recent essays of mine concern:
• busking
• angels, demons, and AI (reprinted in Public Discourse)
• representation in fiction;
• moral imagination;
• love of country;
• pubs;
• teaching and theater;
• and more!
• On Education
• "Teaching the One Percent" for Plough Quarterly
• "Tradition and Community" for VIRTUE Magazine
• "What is Our Scholarly Inheritance?" for Plough Quarterly
• On Political Community
• "On Privacy and Exclusion" for Comment
• "What Canada's Euthanasia Advocates Ask Us to Believe" for Bulwark+
• "What's the ius?" (A review of Adrian Vermeule's Common Good Constitutionalism) for Commonweal
• "Morality and the Aims of Politics" for Earth & Altar
• "Justice and the State: Against a Christian Caliphate" for Athwart
• On Citizenship
• "Choosing America" for Plough Quarterly
• "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]
• "What to an Immigrant is the Third of November?" for Breaking Ground
• On Music
• "Music and Morals" for Plough Quarterly
• "The Politics of Polyphonic Singing" for Plough Quarterly
• On Faith
• "What is Reality?" for Earth & Altar"
• Expectation and Narrative: Reflections on Advent" for Earth & Altar

Other Media

• My essay on angels, demons, and AI is the topic of an episode of the Wednesday Conversation podcast
• In Spring 2025, I am a resident speaker for Lectures on Tap. Find my latest lecture here.
• My essay on the dinner party covered by CNN
• 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.