Santiago Ramos

Santiago Ramos is the Senior Research Editor at the Aspen Institute’s Philosophy and Society Initiative and Executive Editor of Wisdom of Crowds. He is a longtime contributor for Commonweal magazine and contributing editor for Plough Quarterly. His essays and reviews have appeared in America, First Things, Image Journal, Plough Quarterly, and Salon. He began his career as an art critic for the Kansas City alt-weekly, The Pitch.

Santiago completed a doctorate in philosophy at Boston College.

Articles —

Journalism and essays.

  1. “After Evo” (2020 Bolivia elections)
  2. “Thirty Pesos, Thirty Years” (Chile protests)
  3. “Caught Between Camps” (Temple Mount crisis)
  4. “Protest & Protection” (Christians in Jerusalem)
  5. “Why They Loved Him” (Diego Maradona)
  6. “First Contact” (UFOs, Progress, & Projection)
  7. “Shrine Politics” (populists/religion)
  8. “South of the South Pole” (Stephen Hawking & God)
  9. “An Unlikely Prophet for the Digital Age” (Jaron Lanier)
  10. “In Defense of Brooding” (Ingmar Bergman)
  11. “Illusions of Empire” (The Capitol riot seen from Latin America)
  12. “The Humanities are Pointless” (& that’s good)
  13. “Vanities Come to Dust” (Joan Didion)
  14. “The Omnivore” (Clive James)
  15. “Shaman & Scapegoat” (Jim Morrison)

Reviews —

Book and movie reviews.

  1. Transcendent Kingdom (Yaa Gyasi)
  2. Intimations (Zadie Smith)
  3. Pilgrimage to Eternity (Timothy Egan)
  4. My Father Left Me Ireland (Michael Brendan Dougherty)
  5. Conscientious Thinking (David Bosworth)
  6. The Emperor’s Children (Claire Messud)
  7. The Emperor’s Children (Claire Messud) 2
  8. How Fiction Works (James Wood)
  9. Freedom (Jonathan Franzen), The Marriage Plot (Jeffrey Eugenides), & The Pale King (David Foster Wallace)
  10. Map and Territory (Michel Houellebecq)
  11. From the Underground Church to Freedom (Tomáš Halík)
  12. The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) & Watchmen (Zack Snyder)
  13. The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

Academic Papers —

Peer-reviewed publications.

  1. “Plato’s Ion and Creativity”
  2. “Plato and Kant on Beauty and Desire”
  3. “Plato’s Hippias Major and Political Power”
  4. “Memory and Oblivion in Myth and Philosophy”
  5. Academia.edu Profile
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