Jesse Callahan Bryant
@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social
PhD candidate in Sociology at Yale studying right-wing naturalism, organicism, and pastoralism. Fan of Ohio State FB. Currently laying low in Spain 🇪🇸
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Front-Stage Politics: Visual Identity and Discourse on the Far Right
This article investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements, shifting attention from ideology and identity to the mechanisms of collect...
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NEW PAPER DROP: I used a vision transformer (ViT) and PCA to analyze avatar content from the white nationalist web forum, Stormfront.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZRKQY...
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ONLINE FIRST
Focusing on the case of Stormfront, a prominent white nationalist forum, Jesse Callahan Bryant (@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social) investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements.
Read more at bit.ly/49tayCg
Focusing on the case of Stormfront, a prominent white nationalist forum, Jesse Callahan Bryant (@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social) investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements.
Read more at bit.ly/49tayCg
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
ONLINE FIRST
Focusing on the case of Stormfront, a prominent white nationalist forum, Jesse Callahan Bryant (@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social) investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements.
Read more at bit.ly/49tayCg
Focusing on the case of Stormfront, a prominent white nationalist forum, Jesse Callahan Bryant (@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social) investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements.
Read more at bit.ly/49tayCg
NEW PAPER DROP: I used a vision transformer (ViT) and PCA to analyze avatar content from the white nationalist web forum, Stormfront.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZRKQY...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZRKQY...
Front-Stage Politics: Visual Identity and Discourse on the Far Right
This article investigates how visual and textual practices together sustain collective identity in contemporary movements, shifting attention from ideology and identity to the mechanisms of collect...
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
NEW PAPER DROP: I used a vision transformer (ViT) and PCA to analyze avatar content from the white nationalist web forum, Stormfront.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZRKQY...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ZRKQY...
The moral politics of affirming the cycle, negating the cycle, and transcending the cycle.
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Relating to Natural Cycles
The moral politics of affirming the cycle, negating the cycle, and transcending the cycle.
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November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The moral politics of affirming the cycle, negating the cycle, and transcending the cycle.
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Why are many of today’s most strident male defenders of Western civilization married to Asian women?
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/western-ci...
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Western Civilization and Eastern Marriage
Why are many of today’s most strident male defenders of Western civilization married to Asian women?
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November 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Why are many of today’s most strident male defenders of Western civilization married to Asian women?
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/western-ci...
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/western-ci...
gerontocrats
November 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
gerontocrats
Shitting on Ezra Klein
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/what-cause...
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What Causes the Democratic Party?
What Ezra Klein gets wrong about how to beat Trumpism.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Shitting on Ezra Klein
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/what-cause...
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/what-cause...
The chapter I contributed on the far right to in the new report Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment is available totally Open Access below. Let me know what you think!
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Validate User
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October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The chapter I contributed on the far right to in the new report Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment is available totally Open Access below. Let me know what you think!
academic.oup.com/book/61469/c...
academic.oup.com/book/61469/c...
have any sociologists taken Hayek's later writings serious or know of someone that has?
October 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
have any sociologists taken Hayek's later writings serious or know of someone that has?
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doh forgot to tag @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social! Complete conversation (pod ep + transcript) are here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
S14, Ep2 | Welcome to the Rapture! How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Intersect with Climate
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
drilled.media
September 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
doh forgot to tag @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social! Complete conversation (pod ep + transcript) are here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
More relevant than ever.
My new paper on Populism and Political Violence with @jtommueller.bsky.social and Paul Burow is out now in @sociusjournal.bsky.social!
We find evidence that in rural areas populist attitudes are associated with *reduced* support for political violence.
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We find evidence that in rural areas populist attitudes are associated with *reduced* support for political violence.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Rural Populism and Tolerance for Political Violence - Jesse Callahan Bryant, J. Tom Mueller, Paul Berne Burow, 2025
This study shows that populist attitudes are associated with reduced tolerance for political violence in rural areas of the United States. Using a representativ...
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September 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
More relevant than ever.
The war tore apart the intellectual community of sociologists that had been developing around the North Atlantic. Some, like Hobhouse, were horrified by the fighting; others became belligerent. Durkheim and Giddings became vehement anti-German propagandists
July 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
The war tore apart the intellectual community of sociologists that had been developing around the North Atlantic. Some, like Hobhouse, were horrified by the fighting; others became belligerent. Durkheim and Giddings became vehement anti-German propagandists
Our Vice President misinterpreted a social scientist and, as a result, converted to Catholicism.
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Peter Thiel, Rene Girard, and Vance's Moral Conundrum
Scapegoating and sacrifice in Contemporary America
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June 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Our Vice President misinterpreted a social scientist and, as a result, converted to Catholicism.
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
For a while now I’ve been tracing this thread of general conservative skepticism toward the written word.
A weird obsession, I know…
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A weird obsession, I know…
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Text-Skepticism and Conservatism
Or, Two Kinds of Law
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June 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
For a while now I’ve been tracing this thread of general conservative skepticism toward the written word.
A weird obsession, I know…
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/text-skept...
A weird obsession, I know…
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/text-skept...
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This week's digest shares the work of @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social and @j-farrell.bsky.social, urging a closer look at conservative thought in relation to the natural environment and the theoretical underpinnings of its connection to nature.
Bryant & Farrell: Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment — The Rural Reconciliation Project
In Conservatism, the Far Right, and the Environment , J esse Callahan Bryant and Justin Farrel (both Env ironment, Yale) review and integrate sociological research with multidisciplinary literature...
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April 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This week's digest shares the work of @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social and @j-farrell.bsky.social, urging a closer look at conservative thought in relation to the natural environment and the theoretical underpinnings of its connection to nature.
What is up with RFK and everyone talking about a "healthy" society?
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What is a healthy society?
The battle against America's domestic poisons
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March 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
What is up with RFK and everyone talking about a "healthy" society?
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
im just on here because twitter is down
March 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
im just on here because twitter is down
I was promised there would be dissertations about wtf "Old Town Road" was
March 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I was promised there would be dissertations about wtf "Old Town Road" was
All sociologists face the choice "to situate [social phenomena] resolutely outside nature; that is, admit that they are not subject to the law of causality and thus constitute a world apart within the world, or to proceed with them as with other natural phenomena."
March 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
All sociologists face the choice "to situate [social phenomena] resolutely outside nature; that is, admit that they are not subject to the law of causality and thus constitute a world apart within the world, or to proceed with them as with other natural phenomena."
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Similarly, 404 Media found Doge dot gov was also not hosted on government servers, but rather was on Cloudflare. Pranksters were able to push live updates to the site.
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Similarly, 404 Media found Doge dot gov was also not hosted on government servers, but rather was on Cloudflare. Pranksters were able to push live updates to the site.
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
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🔎 Think you know #populism? Think again—In rural America, #populist attitudes connect to economic grievances & conservatism but weaken the link to #PoliticalViolence.
New #OA study by Drs. @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social, @jtommueller.bsky.social & Paul Berne Burow: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
New #OA study by Drs. @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social, @jtommueller.bsky.social & Paul Berne Burow: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
February 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
🔎 Think you know #populism? Think again—In rural America, #populist attitudes connect to economic grievances & conservatism but weaken the link to #PoliticalViolence.
New #OA study by Drs. @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social, @jtommueller.bsky.social & Paul Berne Burow: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
New #OA study by Drs. @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social, @jtommueller.bsky.social & Paul Berne Burow: doi.org/10.1177/2378...