Publications

Essays and Criticism

Voices in My Head: On Discovering Voice in Fiction and Life, The Writer’s Center Magazine, Fall 2024

An Overabundance Of Wishful Love – Yiyun Li’s “The Book Of Goose”, 3 Quarks Daily, July 3, 2023 

The Great Books Weren’t All Great, But While Reading Them I Sometimes Was, 3 Quarks Daily, March 13, 2023 

The Federal Reserve’s Civilian Casualties, 3 Quarks Daily, January 16, 2023 

Effective Altruism And Friendship, 3 Quarks Daily, September 26, 2022

Constitutional Caprice, 3 Quarks Daily, July 18, 2022

The Buddhist Self, 3 Quarks Daily, March 28, 2022 

Managing Constitutional Hardball, 3 Quarks Daily, January 31, 2022 

Do People Care About Foreigners?, 3 Quarks Daily, November 29, 2021

Tracking The Impact Of Judicial Decisions, 3 Quarks Daily, October 4, 2021

Porn Stars In Paradise (A David Brooks Parody), 3 Quarks Daily, August 9, 2021

The Best Friends Are Artificial – Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara And The Sun, 3 Quarks Daily, June 14, 2021 

George Saunders And Buddhist Literary Criticism, 3 Quarks Daily, May 17, 2021 

Debating The Koch Brothers – Ben Lerner’s “The Topeka School”, 3 Quarks Daily, March 22, 2021

Public Narratives Are Bad Stories About Fears, 3 Quarks Daily, February 22, 2021 

Prosecuting An Authoritarian Ex-President, 3 Quarks Daily, January 25, 2021 

The Grinches, Scrooges, And Dursleys Of Democratic Gift Exchange, 3 Quarks Daily, December 28, 2020

The Idealist Case For Supreme Court Expansion, 3 Quarks Daily, November 2, 2020 

Ordinary Illiberalism, 3 Quarks Daily, October 5, 2020 

Trumpism And The Exhilaration Of Incoherence, 3 Quarks Daily, September 7, 2020 

Mindfulness And Social Identity, 3 Quarks Daily, August 10, 2020

Behavioral Public Policy Faces a Crisis, Behavioral Scientist, April 30, 2020

Short fiction 

The Assistant Secretary, Asian-American Literary Review Fall/Winter 2012 (Nominated for Pushcart Prize, Recognized in Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013)

Academic Work

Google Scholar page

Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs

Courting Social Justice: a publications edited by Varun Gauri
Community Paralegals and the Pursuit of Justice: publications edited by Varun Gauri
School Choice in Chile: a publications edited by Varun Gauri

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For the Blessings of Jupiter and Venus, the debut novel from Varun Gauri
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