Prickly Dispatches

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Peter Sahlins 4/20/26 Peter Sahlins 4/20/26

Week of the Book

Recent reporting, in time for World Book Day, suggests the book is back — but who’s reading what?

Peter Sahlins 4/18/26 Peter Sahlins 4/18/26

Paris is Burning

We should all be concerned by the firing of a prominent editor.

The Editors 4/16/26 The Editors 4/16/26

Marie Clairadigm

PPP author Franco La Cecla lends his expertise on architecture and design to Marie Claire.

$What the Machine Doesn't Know It Doesn't Know$

The Editors 4/16/26 The Editors 4/16/26

What the Machine Doesn't Know It Doesn't Know

Paul Kockelman’s Last Words; Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse (2024) explains the “jagged intelligence” of LLMs.

The Editors 4/15/26 The Editors 4/15/26

Disaster Data

PPP author Dominic Boyer reflects on the Tax Day Flood that swept through Houston in 2016.

The Editors 4/14/26 The Editors 4/14/26

Being Here

James Ferguson’s Presence and Social Obligation (2021) is a must-read response to Trump.

James Chandler 4/13/26 James Chandler 4/13/26

Selective Memory and the Trump Administration

The author of The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning on new lawsuits against Harvard.

The Editors 4/12/26 The Editors 4/12/26

Hegseth’s “Divine War”

Bruce Holsinger’s 2007 pamphlet was prophetic.

The Editors 4/10/26 The Editors 4/10/26

David Nally and Tuberous Worlds

Announcing another edited volume by a Prickly Paradigm Press author.

The Editors 4/8/26 The Editors 4/8/26

Trump, Iran, and the “Nuclear Taboo”

Hussein Banai and Danny Postel on the worst possible outcome for the war in Iran.

The Editors 4/1/26 The Editors 4/1/26

Danny Postel on the Iran-Iraq War's Legacy

For New Lines Magazine, the author of Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran brings historical context to the conflict in Iran.

The Editors 3/30/26 The Editors 3/30/26

How Do We Think About Population in the Anthropocene?

Dive deeper into one of the most challenging questions facing Anthropocene Studies.

The Editors 3/27/26 The Editors 3/27/26

Last Words: Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse

Dive deeper into Paul Kockelman’s latest PPP pamphlet.

The Editors 3/24/26 The Editors 3/24/26

The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning

Dive deeper into James Chandler’s new pamphlet from Prickly Paradigm Press.

The Editors 3/23/26 The Editors 3/23/26

Trump's "Antisemitism"

Jim Chandler’s new Prickly Paradigm Press pamphlet looks at the deep ironies of Trump’s political agenda.