Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D.
@drdjbyrd.bsky.social
Professor of Philosophy and Religion; Editor-in-Chief of Ekpyrosis Press; Founder and Co-Director of the Institute for Critical Social Theory; Cigars, mate!
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As a political philosopher, I first thought Trump was understandable through the tools of #philosophy, but I was wrong. #Trump has no discernible #ideology; all he has is his psychology. Understanding that is key to resistance. I explain it all in my book. #MAGA #psychology #Cult Get it on Amazon!
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Yes, who is more likely to regard the sacrifice of people as abhorrent than those who follow a religion centered on celebrating the sacrifice of a person?
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Yes, who is more likely to regard the sacrifice of people as abhorrent than those who follow a religion centered on celebrating the sacrifice of a person?
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No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
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So happy that "On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives" is now out in print! With 19 contributors, the book addresses definitions of CN; historical development; intersections with racism, sexism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia; and practical ways to address the problem.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
So happy that "On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives" is now out in print! With 19 contributors, the book addresses definitions of CN; historical development; intersections with racism, sexism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia; and practical ways to address the problem.
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If you or someone you know is in higher ed, why not pick them up something for Black Friday?
“Requiem for a College” tells the story of those who have lived through small college closings, and provides research to explain why this trend is happening.
#academicsky
“Requiem for a College” tells the story of those who have lived through small college closings, and provides research to explain why this trend is happening.
#academicsky
Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States
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November 28, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you or someone you know is in higher ed, why not pick them up something for Black Friday?
“Requiem for a College” tells the story of those who have lived through small college closings, and provides research to explain why this trend is happening.
#academicsky
“Requiem for a College” tells the story of those who have lived through small college closings, and provides research to explain why this trend is happening.
#academicsky
Here is one of my latest discourses with the critical theorist, Rudolf J. Siebert, who hails from Frankfurt, #Germany. Next week, we will record another video on the democratic versus the authoritarian personality. #philosophy #criticaltheory #sociology #psychoanalysis youtu.be/y1qzX-M3wMM?...
Resisting Fascism: Father Alfred Delp
YouTube video by Rudolf J. Siebert Audio-Visual Archive
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November 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Here is one of my latest discourses with the critical theorist, Rudolf J. Siebert, who hails from Frankfurt, #Germany. Next week, we will record another video on the democratic versus the authoritarian personality. #philosophy #criticaltheory #sociology #psychoanalysis youtu.be/y1qzX-M3wMM?...
Stephen Miller would like to engage in sippenhaftung, just like the Nazis. How not surprising.
November 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Stephen Miller would like to engage in sippenhaftung, just like the Nazis. How not surprising.
In 2019, I started the publishing house Ekpyrosis Press to reprint my mentor’s books - he’s now 98 years old. It blew up! Now we’re publishing numerous books a year by other authors. Take a look and take 20% off. #philosophy #religion #politics #sociology #psychology #psychoanalysis #MENA #islam
November 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
In 2019, I started the publishing house Ekpyrosis Press to reprint my mentor’s books - he’s now 98 years old. It blew up! Now we’re publishing numerous books a year by other authors. Take a look and take 20% off. #philosophy #religion #politics #sociology #psychology #psychoanalysis #MENA #islam
These are my two latest books coming out this December from Haymarket Books! They’re currently on sale for 40% off! Great deal for all kinds of tasty goodness!
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
These are my two latest books coming out this December from Haymarket Books! They’re currently on sale for 40% off! Great deal for all kinds of tasty goodness!
A nice delivery in the mail today. Congratulations to Joan Braun and David M. Gides who editing this most excellent volume. #philosophy #sociology #psychology #Christianity #nationalism #ChristianNationalism #Russia #Putin #Ruscism #Messianism #politcs #Ukraine #war #zelensky
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November 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A nice delivery in the mail today. Congratulations to Joan Braun and David M. Gides who editing this most excellent volume. #philosophy #sociology #psychology #Christianity #nationalism #ChristianNationalism #Russia #Putin #Ruscism #Messianism #politcs #Ukraine #war #zelensky
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COMING IN DECEMBER: #populism #politics #rightwing #farright #trump #JDVance #MAGA #erdogan #MBS #saudiarabia #Argentina #CGJung #freud #Adorno #Habermas #CriticalTheory #philosophy #politicalscience #politics #USA #GOP #liberalism #fascism #USA www.dustinjbyrd.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:44 AM
COMING IN DECEMBER: #psychoanalysis #psychology #philosophy #sociology #politics #thanatos #politicalpsychology #oedipus #religion #religiousstudies www.dustinjbyrd.org
November 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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🚨 🦅 Breaking Military News:
The display of this plaque at West Point, which says exactly what six Democratic veterans posted about our military service members' oaths to our Constitution and law not to any leader, is also, according to Trump, "punishable by DEATH!"
The display of this plaque at West Point, which says exactly what six Democratic veterans posted about our military service members' oaths to our Constitution and law not to any leader, is also, according to Trump, "punishable by DEATH!"
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
🚨 🦅 Breaking Military News:
The display of this plaque at West Point, which says exactly what six Democratic veterans posted about our military service members' oaths to our Constitution and law not to any leader, is also, according to Trump, "punishable by DEATH!"
The display of this plaque at West Point, which says exactly what six Democratic veterans posted about our military service members' oaths to our Constitution and law not to any leader, is also, according to Trump, "punishable by DEATH!"
Today, we remembers the Polish-British sociologist and philosopher, Zygmunt Bauman, on his 100 year birthday. May he never be forgotten. #philosophy #sociology #ZygmuntBauman #academia #modernity #fear #academicchatter #academia www.dustinjbyrd.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Today, we remembers the Polish-British sociologist and philosopher, Zygmunt Bauman, on his 100 year birthday. May he never be forgotten. #philosophy #sociology #ZygmuntBauman #academia #modernity #fear #academicchatter #academia www.dustinjbyrd.org
I had the wonderful opportunity to take my class, “Religion and #Philosophy in the Third Reich,” to The Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, MI, this past week. Always disturbing, it was eye opening for students. #Holocaust #Genicide #Nazism #fascism dustinjbyrd.org/2025/11/15/u...
UO Students to The Zekelman Holocaust Center
On Thursday, November 13th, 2025, I was able to take the students in my “Religion and Philosophy in the Third Reich” course at The University of Olivet to The Zekelman Holocaust Center …
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November 15, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I had the wonderful opportunity to take my class, “Religion and #Philosophy in the Third Reich,” to The Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills, MI, this past week. Always disturbing, it was eye opening for students. #Holocaust #Genicide #Nazism #fascism dustinjbyrd.org/2025/11/15/u...
Out at the end of November: I have a chapter in it entitled, “Messianic Ruscism: Christian Nationalism and the lure of Putin’s Russkii Mir,” about how American Christian Nationalists look to #Russia as a template for what they’d like to do in the US. #Christianity #putin #MAGA www.dustinjbyrd.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Out at the end of November: I have a chapter in it entitled, “Messianic Ruscism: Christian Nationalism and the lure of Putin’s Russkii Mir,” about how American Christian Nationalists look to #Russia as a template for what they’d like to do in the US. #Christianity #putin #MAGA www.dustinjbyrd.org
Two lessons from this morning’s news: 1) Democrats are choke artists, as always; 2) Republicans will stop at nothing to screw over the working class and the poor while protecting white collar criminals. #democrats #republicans #senate #shutdown #ACA #Obamacare #SNAP #politics #MikeJohnson #Trump
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Two lessons from this morning’s news: 1) Democrats are choke artists, as always; 2) Republicans will stop at nothing to screw over the working class and the poor while protecting white collar criminals. #democrats #republicans #senate #shutdown #ACA #Obamacare #SNAP #politics #MikeJohnson #Trump
Today, Ekpyrosis Press remembers the victims of the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on the Jews of Germany by the Nazis. Resistance to all forms of bigotry must always be the way of civilization. #kristallnacht #fascism #nazism #politics #antisemitism #resistance #antifascism #WWII
November 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Today, Ekpyrosis Press remembers the victims of the 1938 Kristallnacht attack on the Jews of Germany by the Nazis. Resistance to all forms of bigotry must always be the way of civilization. #kristallnacht #fascism #nazism #politics #antisemitism #resistance #antifascism #WWII
Was the $40 billion sent to #Argentina actually for Argentina, or was it for #Trump for when he flees there? It is out of character for him not to somehow benefit from such a move. And let’s be honest, he would flee (on his own Qatari jet) before the indictments start piling up again.
November 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Was the $40 billion sent to #Argentina actually for Argentina, or was it for #Trump for when he flees there? It is out of character for him not to somehow benefit from such a move. And let’s be honest, he would flee (on his own Qatari jet) before the indictments start piling up again.
Trump has spent his entire life stiffing people he owes money to; there is no surprise he’s trying to stiff the American people of their SNAP benefits. #SNAP #Snapbenefits #Trump #MAGA #GOP #SupremeCourt #politics #money
November 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Trump has spent his entire life stiffing people he owes money to; there is no surprise he’s trying to stiff the American people of their SNAP benefits. #SNAP #Snapbenefits #Trump #MAGA #GOP #SupremeCourt #politics #money
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Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
The Geist of Halloween: #philosophy #hegel #spirit #geist #halloween #idealism #academia #academicchatter #dialectics
November 2, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Geist of Halloween: #philosophy #hegel #spirit #geist #halloween #idealism #academia #academicchatter #dialectics
Remember, the vanquished appears before the victor. President Xi did not come to the US; the vanquished appeared before the victor in Beijing. Good job, Donald. Way to Make America Great Again. You lost, and so did we. #Trump #Xi #China #tariffs #trade #tradewar #MAGA #rareearth #soybeans #farmers
November 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Exactly Chris
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Exactly Chris
For those struggling with the AI addicts in their classes: #academia #academics #university #college #teaching #philosophy #sociology #theology #humanities #science #AI #artificialintelligence #decline #collapse
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Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
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October 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For those struggling with the AI addicts in their classes: #academia #academics #university #college #teaching #philosophy #sociology #theology #humanities #science #AI #artificialintelligence #decline #collapse
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My longtime collaborator and dear brother, Seyed Javad Miri, has published his new book: “The Sociological Imagination in Iran: History and Fundamental Challenges.” #Iran #IranianStudies #Islam #Shiism #MiddleEast #MENA #Sociology #philosophy #Hijab #Iranianwomen ekpyrosispress.com/product/the-...
The Sociological Imagination in Iran: History and Fundamental Challenges, by Seyed Javad Miri
The Sociological Imagination in Iran: History and Fundamental Challenges, by Seyed Javad Miri, offers a critical historiography of the sociological imagination in Iran, challenging conventional ins…
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October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My longtime collaborator and dear brother, Seyed Javad Miri, has published his new book: “The Sociological Imagination in Iran: History and Fundamental Challenges.” #Iran #IranianStudies #Islam #Shiism #MiddleEast #MENA #Sociology #philosophy #Hijab #Iranianwomen ekpyrosispress.com/product/the-...