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  • Dhananjay jagannathan

    teacher of philosophy; scholar; essayist

     

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    Recent Writing for a Broad Audience

    • 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.

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