Dhananjay Jagannathan

@dhananjayj.bsky.social

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academic, essayist Substack (on culture and identity): https://culturedopinion.substack.com/ Writing portfolio: https://dhananjayj.com/ Books: ARISTOTLE'S PRACTICAL EPISTEMOLOGY (OUP 2024); CULTURE AS CONVERSATION (PENGUIN forthcoming 2026)

Ed Miliband surrounded by supporters holding Labour 2015 flags standing in front of a large limestone tablet featuring six campaign promises and his signature under the slogan "A Better Plan. A Better Future."
Come now, Percy. What you call Western Civilization... is a living force, collective consciousness that has burned bright for thousands of years. The gods are part of it, [a] fire started in Greece. The heart of the fire moved to Rome, and so did the gods... wherever the flame was brightest, the gods were there. They are now in your United States. Look at your symbol, the eagle of Zeus. Look at the statue of Prometheus in Rockfeller Center... like it or not—America is now the heart of the flame. It is the great power of the west. And so Olympus is here. –Chiron explaining Western Civilization to Percy in The Lightning Thief.
A picture of the antagonist Frieza from Dragon Ball Z holding up five fingers, with text overlaid reading "Five More Minutes and the Strait Will Reopen".
Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush wearing tan suits in the Oval Office and laughing, with two aides in gray suits standing next to them
A laser eyes meme of French novelist Michel Houellebecq, author of the book Submission.
A book cover – Aristotle's Practical Epistemology by Dhananjay Jagannathan – featuring a 18th century painting of an apothecary's shop with several figures in the foreground and neatly ordered jars in the background.
A photograph of former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in a black clerical outfit against a backdrop of carved wood.
Line of Beauty on animals, persons, and things Symposium on Animals: Part V an image of several pigs on a farm, standing in mud, with trees behind them