Prickly Dispatches
An editorial supplement featuring commentary on our pamphlets, announcements and news from the press, and more from our editors, authors, and collaborators.
Know-Nothings vs. Classical Liberals
James Chandler interviewed for the American Campus podcast.
Trump, Bannon, and Gangs of New York
James Chandler writes about Know-Nothingism for History Ireland Magazine.
Kayfabe, Trolling, Satire, and Cynicism
Jennifer Pitts analyzes the use of irony in The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning.
Christopher Rufo and the Right’s Hypocritical War on CRT
Nicholas Dirks responds to James Chandler’s new book, The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning.
Should We Excuse the Practices of Universities?
Richard Bourke comments on The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning.
What Is Higher Learning?
Jerome McGann reconsiders the point of higher education in light of James Chandler’s new pamphlet.
Trump, Zelensky, and Thucydides
Colin Murphy applies James Chandler’s analysis of kayfabe in the Trump administration to the theatricality of modern geopolitics.
Spectacle and Distraction
Don Michael Randel explains how the Know-Nothing campaign against universities contradicts the administration's stated policy goals.
Trump and Anti-Catholicism in America
Norman Vincent Peale, the author of The Power of Positive Thinking who officiated Trump’s first wedding, is a link in a long chain of American prejudice against Catholics.
Selective Memory and the Trump Administration
The author of The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning on new lawsuits against Harvard.
The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning
Dive deeper into James Chandler’s new pamphlet from Prickly Paradigm Press.
Trump's "Antisemitism"
Jim Chandler’s new Prickly Paradigm Press pamphlet looks at the deep ironies of Trump’s political agenda.
Coming This Summer!
A literary and film critic looks at Trump’s war on the universities — and more.