Cultured Opinion
Dhananjay JagannathanPhilosophical and personal essays about culture, politics, music, food, travel, &c.
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on the fear of Hell
This is the time of year my mind usually turns to eternal damnation. Were I still teaching at Columbia, I’d be gearing up to present Dante’s Inferno to my Literature Humanities students, once we had finished Augustine’s Confessions, which t...
On teaching Plato
Where to start? The US’s slide toward authoritarianism has, it seems, accelerated. The President’s masked secret police is an ill-trained and thin-skinned bunch that must continually reduce its standards and raise its hiring bonuses to find...
on solidarity
We are born to live with and for each other.
Nearly every semester I teach Aristotle’s ethics or political philosophy, and I tell my students that this is what Aristotle means when he says that humans are political animals. Walk down the s...
on sacred music
It’s the end of the semester and I’m buried in grading, so in lieu of a new essay this week, I’m sharing below the first part of an essay of mine on sacred music that appears in the December issue of Commonweal.
Like many people, one of my...
competence is not enough
We are drowning in mediocrity, but, like frogs being boiled, we’ve only just started to notice.
Recently I realized that my favorite table in my favorite café near my office is under a frame containing AI-generated visual slop riffing on t...
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Dhananjay Jagannathan is an essayist and professor of philosophy. His essays on music, politics, religion, and literature have appeared in Plough, Comment, and Commonweal. He writes the twice-monthly Substack newsletter Cultured Opinion.
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