Jonny Thakkar
@jonnythakkar
Assistant Professor at Swarthmore, Founding editor @the_point_mag
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On February 8th, I'll be doing a Nite-Owls event with Jonny Thakkar at Swarthmore College. We'll go late into the night (hence the name) doing a deep dive into "wokeness," the current cultural and political landscape, and more. Info here: swatcentral.swarthmore.edu/?trumbaEmbed=v…
Trump’s “wounded ego,” Jonny Thakkar observes in a conversation with Jan-Werner Müller, “somehow stands in for the much more serious wounds of ordinary Americans. This notion of a wounded people seems to be quite critical to the history of populism.” thepointmag.com/dialogue/the-r…
If you're a college student in the US who wants to take a class w/ me & Jonny Thakkar this summer apply here! PS tuition & room & board is covered! PPS if you DONT want to take a class w/ us you shd still apply, bc there's a class we're not teaching! publicthinking.thepointmag.com/workshop
“Populists,” Jan-Werner Müller tells Jonny Thakkar, “do not treat the will of the people as a fallible proposition involving the aggregation of different groups.” thepointmag.com/dialogue/the-r…
Now online, a selection from the audience Q&A of the panel “Can Criticism Survive Inside the University?” at last month’s The Point Program for Public Thinking conference:
“Even the era of false dawns is long gone: we subsist in a dark age of relentless mediocrity in which losing doesn’t even seem to make anything worse.” New online, Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United’s worst-ever season: thepointmag.com/examined-life/…
“The thing about believers,” writes Jonny Thakkar, “is that they think their belief gives them the correct view about the basic structure of reality. Following a team feels much more contingent than that.” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…
This essay by Jonny Thakkar felt like it was pulled straight from my head — save for the part about being from Manchester. thepointmag.com/examined-life/… The Point Magazine
Fantastic essay from Jonny Thakkar in The Point Magazine on the trials of supporting Manchester United. It's a pain and a passion that I know well. thepointmag.com/examined-life/…
“Love has never been an exercise in maximizing.” Jonny Thakkar on Manchester United and the meaning of love: thepointmag.com/examined-life/…
realclearbooks.com Monday reads: Adam Morgan for Los Angeles Review of Books, Christopher J. Scalia for The Dispatch, Jonny Thakkar for The Point Magazine, Jack Rockwell for Cleveland Review of Books, Christopher Gage for his S*bstack, Emile Doak for Commonplace, and many others.
A short book about The Republic, Leviathan & the Communist Manifesto: Great Books, Bad Arguments by W.G. Runciman. There is value in The Republic (Jonny Thakkar, Plato as Critical Theorist) & Marx's Capital (docs.google.com/document/d/19i…). The Manifesto has critiques of other
“Even the era of false dawns is long gone: we subsist in a dark age of relentless mediocrity in which losing doesn’t even seem to make anything worse.” On being a Manchester United fan these last few years, and why I can't let go... The Point Magazine thepointmag.com/examined-life/…
“I think it’s fair to describe what happened to me as a teenager with United as falling in love,” writes Jonny Thakkar. “My current relationship to the team reflects those origins.” thepointmag.com/examined-life/…
“We’re like aristocrats exiled after a revolution, melancholy at the loss of a birthright we never deserved, happiest roaming the mansions of our minds.” Jonny Thakkar on being a Manchester United fan in the aftermath of their worst-ever season: thepointmag.com/examined-life/…