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
50 episodes
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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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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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Season 1
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Episode 40
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12:51
How Ideology Becomes Idolatry
Why You Should ListenIf you’ve ever felt that modern life demands your faith without calling it that, this essay is for you. When Ideology Becomes Idolatry asks what happens when our deepest convictions—about progress, po...
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Season 1
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Episode 39
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10:14
The Church of the Algorithm
Why You Should Listen “The Church of the Algorithm”Because we’ve built cathedrals out of code and mistaken them for temples of truth. Because the same hunger that once built altars now builds apps.Because in a world obsessed w...
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Season 1
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Episode 38
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10:16
Living Beyond the Empire’s Clock
Why you should listenIf the daily crisis cycle keeps stealing your energy and clarity, this essay offers a way out. I’m talking to you, and I’m talking to myself. Together we can refuse the manipulation of urgency and choose...
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Season 1
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Episode 37
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8:39
A Republic Summoned, a Golden Toilet Answered
Why You Should ListenBecause the Republic has summoned a savior before — and once it got a farmer who gave everything and wanted nothing. This time, we got a man who gilds his toilets, trademarks his name, and never leaves the sta...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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8:37
The Thousand Altars: Spirituality in an Age of Isolation
Why You Should ListenWe live in a world where the chapel is in your pocket, the priest is an algorithm, and silence comes packaged as an app feature. For many, this isn’t just a convenience—it’s the only way they engage with the s...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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14:51
Plato's Cave
Why You Should ListenBecause the shadows got an upgrade. Plato’s prisoners never had WiFi, Netflix, and TikTok—yet here we are, choosing illusion over reality every day. This essay reimagines the ancient cave for the digital age a...
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Season 1
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Episode 34
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7:59
Learning to Breathe Through the Smog
Why You Should ListenBecause you’ve felt it too—the choking sensation when every headline seems like smoke, every argument like fog. This essay is about learning how to breathe again. Not by pretending the air is clean, but by pra...
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Season 1
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Episode 33
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11:02
When Federal Policing Becomes Regime Policing - A Special Report
Why You Should ListenThis is a warning shot.In Nazi Germany, policing didn’t collapse overnight. It consolidated, piece by piece, until ordinary cops became regime enforcers. The Gestapo, Kripo, and Orpo were absorbed into ...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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10:17
Don’t Let the World Steal Your Name
Why You Should ListenWe live in a time when labels fly faster than names, when entire lives are collapsed into hashtags, files, or ballots. This essay is a reminder that your name—your story, your dignity, your voice—is worth defending. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 31
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10:12
The Sacred and the Profaned
Why you should listenIf you’ve ever felt something holy was stolen—twisted into politics, weaponized for power, used to shame the vulnerable—this essay will name that theft. Written not from behind a pulpit but from the edge of the wreck...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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9:46
The Country of Smoke and Noise
Why You Should ListenBecause we live in an age where distraction isn’t a byproduct—it’s the design. The louder the noise, the thicker the smoke, the harder it is to see clearly. This essay cuts through the haze, showing how attention and...
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Season 1
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Episode 29
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9:42