Light Against Empire - The Podcast
Welcome to Light Against Empire – the Podcast—part reckoning, part resistance. If you've ever felt the chill of rising power dressed as patriotism, you're not imagining it. We confront the spectacle, expose the performance, and hold a torch to the machinery of modern empire—while listening closely to the echoes of those who once brought empires down.
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Episodes
25 episodes
The Still Place in a Turning World
Why You Should ListenThis essay is about reclaiming your humanity in an age that profits from distraction. It blends personal reflection, the wisdom of Rilke and Tagore, and simple daily practices to show how stillness is not escape—it’s...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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11:31
The Digital Soul: What AI Reveals About Us
Why You Should ListenWe’re told artificial intelligence is the next frontier. Smarter tools. Faster answers. Endless convenience. But beneath the sales pitch lies a quieter, more troubling reality: people are asking machines for the thin...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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8:47
The Trial of the Gods for Crimes Against Humanity
Why You Should ListenImagine Zeus pleading the Fifth, Poseidon flooding the courtroom, and Dionysus swearing on a wine glass. Funny? Yes. Familiar? Uncomfortably so.This essay stages a Monty Python–style trial of the Greek and Rom...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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7:03
The Oath We Took in Silence
Why You Should ListenBecause in an age when leaders trade oaths for lies, it’s the quiet faithful who still hold the line. This essay is about them—and about us. It reminds us that civilization doesn’t survive on speeches or ceremonies, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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11:44
Icarus in a Jetpack: American Hubris and the Fall We All Saw Coming
Why You Should ListenThey told us the future would save us. That progress was inevitable, that AI would fix what human error broke, and that billionaires with rocket ships and startups were somehow modern prophets. But what ha...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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6:30
I Know Not the Gods, But I Know of Their Sweetness
Why You Should ListenThis piece isn’t theology and it isn’t science—it’s the ache between them. A soliloquy of despair and reverence, it speaks from the wound of human cruelty and the wonder of a world that refuses to be destroyed...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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4:36
When News Sounds Like Weather
Why You Should ListenWe live in a time when attention is the rarest of currencies. Every screen blinks with outrage, every feed scrolls with distraction. And yet—there are words that are not noise. Words that do not evaporate in a swip...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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9:37
No Cathedral Built Itself
Why You Should listen to No Cathedral Built ItselfBecause nothing worth keeping is built overnight.Because your life, your conscience, your community—they’re cathedrals rising one stone at a time.This essay is ab...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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10:13
Diogenes Goes to Washington
Why You Should Listen to Diogenes Goes to WashingtonWhat happens when an ancient cynic philosopher shows up in Washington with nothing but a barrel and a lantern? He finds the same thing you already suspect: truth doesn’t live h...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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7:43
The War for Your Interior Life
Why You Should ListenIn a time when everything is loud, fast, and hungry for your attention—this essay is a quiet rebellion.The War for Your Interior Life isn’t about productivity. It’s about reclaiming the part of...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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9:28
Caligula’s Horse and the Death of Competence
Why You Should ListenOnce upon a time, Caligula put his horse in the Roman Senate. Historians still argue whether it was a joke, an insult, or a sign he’d lost his mind.But the point was never the horse. The point was provi...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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7:49
The Day the Republic Went Missing
Why You Should Listen to ThisSome crimes don’t start with gunfire. They start with a blank page. This is the story of how the Constitution can vanish without a single match struck, and why the official excuse — “just a coding erro...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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8:37
For the Ones Who Wouldn't Bow
Why You Should Listen: For the Ones Who Wouldn’t BowThis isn't a sermon. It's not a slogan. It's a recognition.A secular litany for those who told the truth and paid for it. For the whistleblowers, the exiles, th...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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6:48
Cicero Would Cry in the Senate Bathroom
Why You Should Read This Because the republic didn’t collapse in a day. It was chipped away—by cowards, clowns, and climbers. This essay isn’t just about Cicero weeping in a bathroom stall. It’s about the death of deliberation, the t...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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6:48
This Far, No Further
Why You Should Read ThisBecause there comes a time when silence becomes surrender, and goodness demands more than belief, it demands a stand. This essay names the moral line too many still refuse to see, and invites you to step ac...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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6:37
We the Unready: On the Soulcraft of Democracy
Why You Should Read ThisWe often ask what’s wrong with the system. This essay asks what’s happened to us. Before we rewrite the Republic, we must examine the people holding the pen. We the Unready is not a policy critique...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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26:50
The Fire Thief’s Curse: Why Truth-Tellers Are Punished
Why You Should Listen: Because Prometheus is still chained—and you might be holding the fire he gave. This essay isn’t just a myth retold. It’s a mirror held up to now. If you’ve ever warned the room and been ignored, ever paid the p...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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21:49
The Sacred and the Rational: Toward a Unified Moral Vision
Why You Should Read ThisBecause we’re not just living in an age of collapse—we’re living in an age of disconnection. Not only from institutions or each other, but from meaning itself.Because too many are telling us...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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10:49
We thePeople, Again: A New Continental Congress for a New America
Why You Should ListenBecause the country you were told to believe in may never have believed in you.Because the promise you were raised on might have been someone else’s inheritance.Because pretending everything’s fine ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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21:01
The Liturgy of Refusal: Sacred Acts in a Profane Age
Why You Should Listen In a world that rewards noise, cruelty, and numbness, this essay is a quiet call to sacred defiance. The Liturgy of Refusal isn’t about grand gestures—it’s about daily acts that keep your soul intact wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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19:21
Trial by Oracle
Why You Should ListenBecause our highest court is starting to sound less like a pillar of democracy and more like a mystic riddle machine.Because if you’ve ever squinted at a Supreme Court ruling and thought, “Wait… did...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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9:42
We Are Not One People; We Have Never Been
Why You Should Listen If you've ever felt a quiet grief for the country you thought you knew—if you're struggling to reconcile the ideals you were taught with the reality you see—this essay is for you. It doesn’t offer platitudes or ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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19:36
Special Edition: This is not a Bill. Its a Declaration of War on the People
Why You Should Read ThisBecause the GOP and their “Big Beautiful Bill" want you to feel powerless—and that’s precisely when you must remember your power.This essay is not a think piece. It’s a warning flare. It’s what happe...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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5:50
Christian National Lampoon: Vacationing in the Theocracy You Never Asked For
Why You Should ListenBecause this isn’t just satire—it’s survival instinct with a microphone.Christian National Lampoon: Vacationing in the Theocracy You Never Asked For takes you on a blistering, bitingly funny tour thro...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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7:44
“The Moral Autopsy of a Political Party”
A Forensic Report from the Scene of the Collapse...Today’s episode comes courtesy of the Office of Historical Forensics, Department of Political Pathology.That’s right—dust off your latex gloves and crank up the formaldehyde.We’re openi...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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6:47