Jun 30, 2026
The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning, the Pope's AI encyclical, and Bruno Latour.
Paul Kockelman's Last Words goes beyond the human-machine relation to reveal something monstrous.
Jun 26, 2026
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
Jun 8, 2026
Retracing our roots back to 1993
Jun 1, 2026
Guest contributor Nicolas Guilhot looks at the Pope's stand against Big Tech.
May 28, 2026
Richard Bourke comments on The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning
Nicholas Dirks responds to James Chandler’s new book, The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning.
Jerome McGann reconsiders the point of higher education in light of James Chandler's new pamphlet.
Colin Murphy applies James Chandler's analysis of kayfabe in the Trump administration to the theatricality of modern geopolitics.
Jennifer Pitts analyzes the use of irony in The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning
Don Michael Randel explains how the Know-Nothing campaign against universities contradicts the administration's stated policy goals.
May 26, 2026
On "safeguarding humanity" in Pope Leo XIV's Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.
May 19, 2026
The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning, the Iran War, and what's next from PPP.
May 18, 2026
On International Museum Day (May 20), Paul Werner’s 2005 Prickly Paradigm pamphlet Museum, Inc: Inside the Global Art World is more relevant than ever.
May 11, 2026
We can learn a lot from history in the philosopher and social critic Richard Rorty's 2002 PPP pamphlet, Against Bosses, Against Oligarchies.
Apr 26, 2026
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.
Apr 24, 2026
Epstein, Iran, and Trump's losing war against satire
Apr 20, 2026
Recent reporting, in time for World Book Day, suggests the book is back -- but who's reading what?
Apr 18, 2026
We should all be concerned by the firing of a prominent editor
Apr 16, 2026
PPP Author Franco La Cecla lends his expertise on architecture and design to Marie Claire
PPP author Dominic Boyer reflects on the Tax Day Flood that swept through Houston in 2016.
Paul Kockelman's Last Words; Large Language Models and the AI Apocalypse (2024) explains the "jagged intelligence" of LLMs
Apr 14, 2026
James Ferguson's Presence and Social Obligation (2021) is a must-read response to Trump.
Apr 13, 2026
The author of The Know-Nothing Campaign Against Higher Learning on new lawsuits against Harvard
Apr 12, 2026
Bruce Holsinger's 2007 pamphlet was prophetic
Apr 10, 2026
Announcing another edited volume by a Prickly Paradigm Press author
Apr 8, 2026
Hussein Banai and Danny Postel on the worst possible outcome for the war in Iran
Apr 1, 2026
For New Lines Magazine, the author of Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran brings historical context to the conflict in Iran.
Mar 30, 2026
Dive deeper into one of the most challenging questions facing Anthropocene Studies.
Mar 27, 2026
Dive deeper into Paul Kockelman's latest PPP pamphlet.
Mar 24, 2026
Dive deeper into James Chandler's new pamphlet from Prickly Paradigm Press
Mar 23, 2026
Jim Chandler's new Prickly Paradigm Press pamphlet looks at the deep ironies of Trump's political agenda.
Mar 15, 2026
Danny Postel's 2006 Prickly Paradigm Press pamphlet has new relevance
Brings together the world’s key thinkers in Anthropocene Studies from a wide range of disciplines to think critically about the most important variable: population.
A literary and film critic looks at Trump's war on the universities — and more.
Mar 12, 2026
Allow us to reintroduce ourselves.`
Donna Haraway reflects on the Companion Species Manifesto with Laura Flanders.
