On July 9th, 2026, Ekpyrosis Press author Dustin J. Byrd gave a lecture based on his recent book, The Dark Charisma of Donald Trump: Political Psychology and the MAGA Movement, at the 2nd Annual Institute for Critical Social Theory conference in Istanbul, Turkey. In his talk, he discussed the psychological profile of Donald Trump and what he thinks it means for America in Trump’s second term.
You can purchase your copy of The Dark Charisma of Donald Trump both in paperback and in hardcover.
Ekpyrosis Press author, Dr. Dustin J. Byrd, recently spoke about his book, “The Dark Charisma of Donald Trump: Political Psychology and the MAGA Movement” at the 16th annual Sakharov Conference in Vilnius, Lithuania. Numerous articles about Dr. Byrd’s work were produced from his interviews and speech. Follow the link below to the LRT article (In Lithuanian). To purchase a paperback copy of the book, follow this link: The Dark Charisma of Donald Trump.
US Professor on Trump: All Projects and Daughter Ivanka are his Narcissistic Mirrors.
On January 28th, 2026, Ekpyrosis Press author, Dustin J. Byrd, discussed his book, The Dark Charisma of Donald Trump: Political Psychology and the MAGA Movement, on 990WBOB The Compass out of Rhode Island. He was joined by the host of The Compass, Kevin M. DeJesus, for their conversation on why political psychology is the most effective tool to understand the presidency of Donald Trump and his faithful devotees.
If you would like to listen to the program or download it, see 990WBOB’s The Compass here: The Psychology of MAGA
New Video: The Stone Sphere
New Podcast: The Stone Sphere
At the crossroads of personal rupture and global reckoning, this book chronicles one woman’s journey from the silence of child/clergy sexual abuse to speaking at the United Nations. In prose both raw and luminous, the author traces her battle escaping an abusive marriage after her public disclosure of childhood abuse, and her unlikely ascent through Harvard Divinity School to a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Woven through these pages are the voices that steadied her—David F. Holland, her brother, God, and ancestors—and the convictions that drive her: that religious institutions must be held to account, that parish archives belong to the people they record, and that healing is a right, not a privilege. Moving between the LDS and Italian Catholic hierarchies, she exposes systems that prize reputation over moral ethics, even as she insists on staying in the “trenches” to help remake them. Part memoir, part manifesto, this book invites readers into a spiritual commons where transcendence is shared, not gated; where genealogies mend broken stories; and where the long-suppressed testimonies of survivors bend the moral arc toward justice. It is, ultimately, a call to listen, believe, and act. For more information on Suzie E. Greco and her story, visit her website: The Stone Sphere.
Suzie E. Greco, the author of The Stone Sphere (2025), has a new YouTube channel dedicated to her amazing book as well as her advocacy work. Her work attempts to break the silence of intergenerational cycles of abuse within religious contexts.
Copies of The Stone Sphere can be purchased on the Ekpyrosis Press website, Amazon (US), and Lulu (US & International).
For more information on Suzie E. Greco and her book, see her website: The Stone Sphere.
