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.
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.
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.
Bruno Latour and Trump's War on Iran
Latour’s War of the Worlds: What About Peace?, a Prickly Pamphlet published in 2002 and available as a free download, has diagnostic value in the current quagmire of negotiations
The Political Theology of AI
Guest contributor Nicolas Guilhot looks at the Pope’s stand against Big Tech.
The Corporate Museum
On International Museum Day, Paul Werner’s 2005 Prickly Paradigm pamphlet Museum, Inc: Inside the Global Art World is more relevant than ever.
Identity v. Oligarchy: (Re)reading Rorty in 2026
We can learn a lot from history in the philosopher and social critic Richard Rorty’s 2002 PPP pamphlet, Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies.