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Jesse Callahan Bryant

@jcallahanbryant.bsky.social
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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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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Here’s the argument: THE STATE is reliant on TECH, which is driven by PROFIT, which is extracted through ATTENTION, which is achieved through CONFLICT. jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
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Peter Thiel, Carl Schmitt, and the Metaphysical Laundering of Our Conflict Economy
Today's the death pact between domestic conflict and social order
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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My First Solo-Authored Paper...
...is about the visual culture of white nationalism!
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The Sociological Quarterly @socquarterly.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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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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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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The moral politics of affirming the cycle, negating the cycle, and transcending the cycle. jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/relating-t...
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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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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
gerontocrats
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
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...
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Validate User
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
have any sociologists taken Hayek's later writings serious or know of someone that has?
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
doh forgot to tag @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social! Complete conversation (pod ep + transcript) are here: drilled.media/podcasts/dri...
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S14, Ep2 | Welcome to the Rapture! How Rightwing Populism and Accelerationism Intersect with Climate
Investigating the obstacles to action on climate change.
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
More relevant than ever.
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
anyone else at #ASA2025?
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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What does it mean to be moral?
What does it mean to be moral?
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
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
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
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The Nature of Political Coalitions
In an era of fragmenting political identities and shifting ideological boundaries, it is increasingly apparent that familiar left/right or liberal/conservative labels fail to capture the deep moral an...
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Truth-Telling Today
Or, how the Left might reclaim truth
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Our Vice President misinterpreted a social scientist and, as a result, converted to Catholicism. jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
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Peter Thiel, Rene Girard, and Vance's Moral Conundrum
Scapegoating and sacrifice in Contemporary America
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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...
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Text-Skepticism and Conservatism
Or, Two Kinds of Law
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Rural Reconciliation Project @rural-reconcile.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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.
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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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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
What is up with RFK and everyone talking about a "healthy" society? jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/what-is-a-...
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What is a healthy society?
The battle against America's domestic poisons
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
im just on here because twitter is down
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I was promised there would be dissertations about wtf "Old Town Road" was
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
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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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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...
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Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
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The Rise of Right-Wing Catholic Power in the United States
A trend that it seems like nobody cares about
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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🔎 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...
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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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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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A quick little hit on MAHA, RFK, and today's purity politics. jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/maha-is-ju...
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MAHA is Just Biopower and Purity Binaries
Michel Foucault and Mary Douglas are rolling over in their graves
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Great new piece from @benjij.bsky.social in @vox.com on the evolving landscape of the RFK right, MAHA movement, and purity politics of right-wing environmentalism! www.vox.com/climate/3935...
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RFK Jr. and the new far-right environmentalist
Something strange is happening inside the environmental movement.
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
bookchin
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
everyone is like: this thing you think isn’t bad is actually bad
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Mythically, Nick Saban is Robert E. Lee.
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Me: "Computational power is an enormous barrier for many...under-resourced researchers in attempting to keep up with the cutting-edge methods demanded by top journals." Reviewer 1: "I found this statement frustrating." Reviewer 2: "This is a critical point, and you can support it with Baden (2022)!"
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
A little reflection on Stengers, Latour, Cronon, Kimmerer, et al. jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/seven-quot...
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Seven Quotes to End the Year
Spoiler, they're all about consciousness
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
college football
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
on the eve of the Civil War, the "owning humans" industry accounted for 75% of the US economy. for context, today this is about equivalent to Finance, Insurance, all real estate; Business Services; Government; Manufacturing; Educational Services, Health Care, and Social Assistance; Oil and Gas
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Researchgate always like, “People are reading your work!Weekly stats: +1 Read. A scholar in Kiribati.”
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
the fact that "abductive" is not a recognized word by most grammar software is a insult to American philosophy
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
so, in American sociology being a theorist is just being a “smart” empiricist?
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
if i just create enough “weak links” on BlueSky i will one day get a job in a sociology department
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
A theory paper revealing that the major cleavages in sociological theory are just Aristotle's "four causes": essentialist theory (material cause), formal theory (formal cause), relational theory (efficient cause), critical theory (final cause).
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
why do leftists suddenly care about joe rogan so much?
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
crazy that the only way to get a raise in academia is to threaten to leave by wasting another school's time and resources. should probably change that?
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
If one treats "Nature" and "History" as synonyms (as Collingwood argues) then "Essentialism" and "Ethnicity" also become synonyms.
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
the shift from "biology" to "narrative" as the central metaphor in sociology for rendering society intelligible
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
A new short piece reflecting on my first read-through our Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death! To quote Zadie Smith, “Neil Postman is a prophet and a genius.” jessecallahanbryant.substack.com/p/zadie-smit...
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Zadie Smith thinks you should read Amusing Ourselves to Death
Yes, this is a book review
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
the naturalization of evolutionary metaphysics into progressive senses of reality throughout the 20th century and then the subsequent denial of “Darwinian ideas” by 21st century progressives is so epic
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Jesse Callahan Bryant @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
This year i’m primarily Giving Thanks for Kendrick dropping an unexpected album 🙏
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