Prickly Dispatches
An editorial supplement featuring commentary on our pamphlets, announcements and news from the press, and more from our editors, authors, and collaborators.
Histories of Now: 9/11 and the War on Terror
PPP’s publisher reflects on the press’s legacy and work emerging from 9/11, a history of “how a democracy built an authoritarian regime to respond to an emergency, and how the machinery kept running long after the emergency was over.“
How the Global War on Terror Became a War at Home
Reflections on 9/11 and American Counterinsurgency, 25 Years Later.
Prickly Dispatches Roundup #4: August 2026
The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning, celebrity book clubs, and Steven Spielberg.
Know-Nothings vs. Classical Liberals
James Chandler interviewed for the American Campus podcast.
Rereading Bruce Kapferer’s *2001 and Counting* in light of Spielberg’s *Disclosure Day*
Rereading Bruce Kapferer’s 2001 and Counting in light of Spielberg’s Disclosure Day.
What Are Celebrity Book Clubs For?
On Dua Lipa, Reese Witherspoon, and Katarzyna Bartoszyńska.
Bradbury, False Slop, and the Dead Internet Theory
Revisiting Data, Now Bigger and Better in the age of AI.
Prickly Dispatches Roundup #3: July 2026
The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning, Neo-Liberal Genetics, and Prickly Pear co-founders Anna Grimshaw and Keith Hart.
Neo-Liberal Genetics, Twenty Years On
How Susan McKinnon’s Prickly pamphlet makes sense of today’s manosphere and more
Kayfabe and Misinformation Ran Amok in DC on July 4th
PPP’s Smrithi Senthilnathan reports from the semiquincentennial in the capital.
Trump, Bannon, and Gangs of New York
James Chandler writes about Know-Nothingism for History Ireland Magazine.
Remembering Keith Hart
The legendary anthropologist and Prickly Pear Pamphlets co-founder will be remembered at Cambridge next month.
Prickly Dispatches Roundup #2: June 2026
The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning, the Pope's AI encyclical, and Bruno Latour.
The Monster in the Machine
Paul Kockelman’s Last Words goes beyond the human-machine relation to reveal something monstrous.