Essays, Academic Work, Videos

Essays and Criticism

Kamala’ Coconut Tree: On South Asian Identity and the American Dream, Washington Independent Review of Books, March 15, 2025

Goodbye, India, 3 Quarks Daily, December 26, 2024

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 Publications

Google Scholar page (academic journal articles)

Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs

Videos

The Writers Center Virtual Craft Talk

Book Talk with Daniyal Mueenuddin

The Washington Writers Publishing House Launch at Politics and Prose

3ie Informing Policy Through Behavioral Science

University of Toronto BEAR Talk on Moral Cosmopolitanism

Center for Global Development Talk on Mind, Society, and Behavior

PBS Global Perspectives talk on Global Poverty

Royal Society for Arts (RSA London) Talk on Mind, Society, and Behavior

The ARTWIFE and Inner Loop Podcast

The Curve, Behavioral Science for Development

Council on Foreign Relations, Panel on Poverty with Behavioral Economics