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
61 episodes
The Patriot and the Empire
Why you should listen:Because this essay invites you into the quiet and uneasy space where faith becomes costume and patriotism becomes creed. It offers a human, reflective look at how two powerful American stories merged into one, a...
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Episode 61
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14:05
The Rational Pilgrim
Why You Should LeadYou should listen to this if you’ve ever felt caught between the language of faith and the clarity of reason. This essay offers a quiet, honest path forward, one that honors curiosity, conscience, and the sacred...
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Episode 60
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11:39
The Map and the Mystery
Why you should listenBecause you may be standing where I often stand, caught between what you can prove and what you quietly hope is still possible. This piece offers a grounded and honest way to hold both without pretending they're ...
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Episode 59
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7:55
The Great Grievance Machine
Why You Should ListenBecause this essay explains the emotional machinery no one wants to admit is running the country. It shows how grievance became a worldview, how fear dressed itself as conviction, and how millions came to mist...
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Episode 58
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12:20
The Gospel of the Market: The Shape of the Right: An Autopsy of American Conservatism-A Ten Part Series, Nr 4
Why You Should ListenYou should listen to this if you’ve ever wondered why the market feels like our national religion, why prosperity gets mistaken for virtue, or why suffering gets treated as a personal flaw. This essay pulls ba...
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Episode 57
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12:55
The Strategy of the Epstein File Release
Why You Should ListenThis essay doesn’t offer certainty or grand conclusions. It’s an honest walk through a moment wrapped in secrecy, politics, and uneasy hope. If you’ve ever wondered how power controls the story we’re allowed to see, ...
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Episode 56
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16:43
Science and Faith: Not Enemies, But Partners
Why You Should ListenBecause the world keeps telling you to pick a side even though your lived experience says both science and faith speak to different parts of your humanity. This essay offers a way to honor both your curiosity ...
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Episode 55
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8:36
The Religion of Success: The Shape of the Right: An Autopsy of American Conservatism-A Ten Part Series, Nr 5
Why You Should Listen Because this essay speaks to the quiet anxiety so many of us carry but rarely name. If you’ve ever felt judged by your productivity, measured by your metrics, or pushed to worship the altar of achievement, this ...
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Episode 54
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10:31
Why Are We All Shouting from Separate Islands
Why You Should ListenThis essay invites you to step out of the noise and sit in a quieter space where honest questions still matter. If you’re exhausted by the shouting, discouraged by division, or wondering whether a fractured na...
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Episode 54
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12:42
The Aristocrat’s Shadow From Burke to Buckley, Conservatism’s Fear of the Mob Series: The Shape of the Right, Essay 3
Why You Should ListenIf you’ve ever wondered why a movement that claims to defend ordinary people so often sounds like it’s hosting a garden party, this essay opens that door. I’m asking myself how conservatism turned...
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Episode 53
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14:28
The Frontier Mind: The Shape of the Right: An Autopsy of American Conservatism
Why You Should Listen Because America’s favorite myth—the self-made frontier hero—still drives our politics, blinds our gratitude, and poisons our idea of freedom. This essay pulls the curtain back on that proud illusion, revealing h...
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Episode 52
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13:03
The Moral Republic: American Conservatism - How the Hell Did We Get here? A Ten Part Series
Why You Should Listen: To understand how Conservative America’s obsession with purity survived its belief in God, and why our politics still sound like sermons from a congregation that forgot the closing prayer.
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Episode 51
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12:58
The Feast of Tantalus
Why You Should ListenBecause the myth of Tantalus isn’t ancient anymore. It’s in every grocery aisle, every paycheck, every frozen benefit card. This essay holds a mirror to the cruelty of abundance and the moral rot of a system t...
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Episode 50
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9:48
The Silence of the Dragon
Why You Should Listen Because the rise of China and the unraveling of America aren’t just global events, they’re mirrors of our moral condition. This essay looks beyond headlines and power games to ask the deeper question: what h...
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Episode 49
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10:18
The Exiles of Faith
Why You Should ListenFor anyone who’s ever left a faith community and wondered what comes next, The Exiles of Faith offers more than explanation, it offers companionship. It speaks to the quiet ache that follows belief’s ...
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Episode 48
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9:32
Monsters of the Id
Why You Should ListenBecause this essay isn’t just about culture’s collapse, it’s about the quiet surrender that allowed it. The Monsters of the Id asks what happens when we trade awe for amusement, and meaning for noise....
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Episode 47
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9:59
The Expulsion from Eden
Why You Should Read ListenBecause you feel it too. That ache. That sense that something sacred has been lost, and no one around you wants to name it. This isn’t just an essay about collapse, it’s about the soul’s refusal to forget...
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Episode 46
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9:19
The Unification of Intellect and Heart
Why You Should ListenBecause the world’s cleverness has outpaced its conscience.This essay invites you to explore the quiet revolution that begins within — where intellect humbles itself before empathy, and where clarity and c...
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Episode 45
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5:28
The Dead Still Vote in America: Electoral Myths and Modern Necromancy
Why You Should ListenBecause America’s elections aren’t haunted by fraud, they’re haunted by ghosts. This essay pulls back the velvet curtain on our most sacred political ritual and reveals what’s really happening behind the patri...
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Episode 44
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13:06
Odin is Missing and Eye, Not a Spine
Why You Should ListenThis essay is for anyone who feels the quiet sickness of our age—the flattening of thought, the worship of ignorance, the fear of knowing too much. Through the lens of Odin’s sacrifice, it asks what we are willing to...
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Episode 43
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9:51
The Empire of Extraction: How Resource Hunger Shapes Our World
Why You Should ListenBecause the empire we live under doesn’t wear armor—it wears packaging. Because every phone, tank of gas, and bite of food carries the fingerprints of conquest. Because understanding the empire of e...
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Episode 42
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10:22
The Table of Life: Making Room for Each Other
Why You Should ListenBecause we’re starving for something deeper than information. This essay is a reminder that what sustains us isn’t opinion or outrage, but each other. It’s about the sacred act of making room: for the friend, ...
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Episode 41
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10:59
The Collapse of Competence: What Happens When a Government Stops Governing
Why You Should ListenBecause this essay isn’t about politics—it’s about civilization’s quiet heartbeat. You’ll see how decline begins not with explosions but with indifference, and why competence, care, and moral responsibility ar...
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Episode 40
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