Dhananjay jagannathan
teacher of philosophy; scholar; essayist
Recent Writing for a Broad Audience
- Essays in Line of Beauty, a joint newsletter with Tara Isabella Burton - some recent essays concern:
- love of country;
- pubs;
- teaching and theater;
- tradition;
- euthanasia and respect for life;
- animals and AI;
- poetry;
- and more!
- "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
- & forthcoming essays for Plough Quarterly, on what a college education is for; and for Comment magazine on private property and the commons.
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
See Also
my academic website, with information about publications
© 2019