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!
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
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
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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-...
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Russia's goal is the extermination of the Ukrainian nation. All the stuff about NATO and the EU parroted by Farage and Corbyn is propaganda designed to deceive Westerners. Russia's intermediate aim is a 'peace' deal which will leave Ukraine unable to resist a further invasion.
October 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Russia's goal is the extermination of the Ukrainian nation. All the stuff about NATO and the EU parroted by Farage and Corbyn is propaganda designed to deceive Westerners. Russia's intermediate aim is a 'peace' deal which will leave Ukraine unable to resist a further invasion.
Of course:
Read "Trump’s DOD Gives Massive Contract to Company With Ties to His Son" on SmartNews: l.smartnews.com/p-6sh1Ba00/Q...
Trump’s DOD Gives Massive Contract to Company With Ties to His Son (The New Republic)
It looks like President Donald Trump’s family is once again using the White House as a personal piggy bank.
A Florida-based drone manufacturer linked to Don ...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Of course:
This paperback, published by Haymarket Books - amidst the supposed war zone of Chicago, will be available this December. #Freud #psychoanalysis #philosophy #sociology #religion #criticaltheory #academia #newpublication www.dustinjbyrd.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This paperback, published by Haymarket Books - amidst the supposed war zone of Chicago, will be available this December. #Freud #psychoanalysis #philosophy #sociology #religion #criticaltheory #academia #newpublication www.dustinjbyrd.org
I published this in 2023 and it’s never been more relevant. It’s a deep dive into the psyche of Trump and his devotees from a psychoanalytic and critical theory perspective. #philosophy #psychoanalysis #sociology #history #politics #politicalscience www.ekpyrosispress.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
I published this in 2023 and it’s never been more relevant. It’s a deep dive into the psyche of Trump and his devotees from a psychoanalytic and critical theory perspective. #philosophy #psychoanalysis #sociology #history #politics #politicalscience www.ekpyrosispress.com
A very nice collection of essays regarding the revolutionary social theorist, Ali Shariati. #philosophy #Iran #sociology #psychoanalysis #Islam #religion #middleeast #criticaltheory www.dustinjbyrd.org
October 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
A very nice collection of essays regarding the revolutionary social theorist, Ali Shariati. #philosophy #Iran #sociology #psychoanalysis #Islam #religion #middleeast #criticaltheory www.dustinjbyrd.org
Before the election in 2016, I remarked that if Clinton won, there would be a war with another country. If Trump won, there would be a war on us. Americans chose to make war with us, twice. dustinjbyrd.org
#philosophy #psychoanalysis #sociology #politics #Trump #war #MAGA #fascism
#philosophy #psychoanalysis #sociology #politics #Trump #war #MAGA #fascism
Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at The University of Olivet
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October 11, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Before the election in 2016, I remarked that if Clinton won, there would be a war with another country. If Trump won, there would be a war on us. Americans chose to make war with us, twice. dustinjbyrd.org
#philosophy #psychoanalysis #sociology #politics #Trump #war #MAGA #fascism
#philosophy #psychoanalysis #sociology #politics #Trump #war #MAGA #fascism
Coming in November, the paperback version published by Haymarket Books in Chicago:
#populism #trump #MAGA #chicago #portland #fascism #politics #newbooks #academia #philsky #philosophy #sociology #academia #academicchatter #psychoanalysis www.dustinjbyrd.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Coming in November, the paperback version published by Haymarket Books in Chicago:
#populism #trump #MAGA #chicago #portland #fascism #politics #newbooks #academia #philsky #philosophy #sociology #academia #academicchatter #psychoanalysis www.dustinjbyrd.org