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Light Against Empire - The Podcast

Light Against Empire

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.www.lightagainstempire.com

society & culture philosophy

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12:42

Why Are We All Shouting from Separate Islands

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/11/16

Why You Should Listen This 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 nation can still learn how to hear itself breathe, this piece offers a different path. It’s not a lecture or a lament. It’s a conversation, a raft in rough water, and a reminder that a people don’t stay a people by accident. They stay a people by choosing to find one ...

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14:28

The Aristocrat’s Shadow From Burke to Buckley,...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/11/16

Why You Should Listen If 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 refinement into a virtue, how order became a moral shield, and how a fear of the unrefined seeped into our political bloodstream. This is a quiet walk through Burke’s trembling caution, the Founders’ careful gatekeeping, and Buckley’s velvet vocabulary, all the way to today’s ...

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13:03

The Frontier Mind: The Shape of the Right: An Autopsy...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/11/12

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 how dependence built the very independence we worship. It’s for anyone who’s ever wondered why we cheer for the cowboy while drinking government water and driving federal roads. If you’ve felt that strange loneliness of doing everything “on your own,” this piece w...

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12:58

The Moral Republic: American Conservatism - How the...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/11/09

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. Send us a text Support the show

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9:48

The Feast of Tantalus

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/11/05

Why You Should Listen Because 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 that starves its people in plain sight. If you want to understand how myth became policy, and how hunger became a weapon, this is your feast—and your warning. Send us a text Support the show

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10:18

The Silence of the Dragon

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/11/05

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 happens when one empire forgets itself, and another learns too well? It’s not about who wins, but what we’re becoming while we watch. Send us a text Support the show

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9:32

The Exiles of Faith

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/11/02

Why You Should Listen For 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 undoing, the wilderness between certainty and meaning, and the rediscovery of reverence in everyday life. This essay isn’t about losing religion. It’s about finding integrity. It reminds the reader that faith can evolve, that wonder can survive dogma, and that human goodness...

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9:59

Monsters of the Id

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/29

Why You Should Listen Because 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. It’s a reckoning with our own complicity in the shrinking of human wonder, and a search for what still flickers in the ruins. If you’ve ever felt that the world has become smaller, flatter, and strangely content with its own mediocrity, this essay is an invitation to rememb...

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9:19

The Expulsion from Eden

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/29

Why You Should Read Listen Because 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 what decency looked like. If you’ve been carrying quiet grief for a country that no longer feels like home, this piece gives that grief shape, language, and—somehow—dignity. It’s a benediction for what’s gone, and a quiet summons to keep tending the fire. Send us a...

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5:28

The Unification of Intellect and Heart

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/26

Why You Should Listen Because 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 compassion might finally walk side by side. It’s not a sermon, but a mirror — for anyone who senses that progress without tenderness has left something essential behind. Send us a text Support the show

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13:06

The Dead Still Vote in America: Electoral Myths and...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/22

Why You Should Listen Because 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 patriotic pageantry: a full-blown séance disguised as democracy. You’ll meet the restless spirits who still cast their ballots from beyond the grave — the Founders, the Confederates, the mythic “Real Americans” who keep showing up to decide the future they no longer have...

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9:51

Odin is Missing and Eye, Not a Spine

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Why You Should Listen This 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 lose to regain our moral and intellectual sight. It is a myth reborn as warning, a mirror for modern cowardice, and a call to those still brave enough to see the truth and bear the wound. Send us a text Support the show

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10:22

The Empire of Extraction: How Resource Hunger Shapes...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Why You Should Listen Because 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 extraction isn’t about guilt—it’s about awakening. This isn’t a sermon about despair. It’s a map of memory. It reveals how empire hides in plain sight and how the light of renewal—humility, reciprocity, belonging—can begin wherever we stand. To resist empire is to b...

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12:51

The Collapse of Competence: What Happens When a...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/12

Why You Should Listen Because 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 are revolutionary acts in an age that confuses noise for leadership. It’s a reminder that empires fall when people forget how to maintain what matters—and that renewal still begins with those who do the work no one else will. Send us a text Support the show

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10:59

The Table of Life: Making Room for Each Other

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/12

Why You Should Listen Because 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, the stranger, the skeptic, the tired. You’ll find no sermon here, only an invitation: to sit at the long table of life, to remember that every act of generosity feeds more than the body, and to rediscover what Whitman, Gibran, and so many others knew—our shared huma...

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10:14

How Ideology Becomes Idolatry

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/12

Why You Should Listen If 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, politics, or reason itself—start to look more like worship than wisdom. It’s not a sermon against belief; it’s an invitation to examine what quietly rules your attention and shapes your conscience. Read this if you’re weary of shouting matches disguised as dialogue, if you sus...

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10:16

The Church of the Algorithm

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/10/05

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 with certainty, awe has become an act of rebellion. This essay is for anyone who’s ever felt both amazed and uneasy at how technology, politics, and data have become our new faiths. It’s a reflection for those who suspect that the soul doesn’t disappear in a digital age...

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8:39

Living Beyond the Empire’s Clock

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/30

Why you should listen If 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 a slower, steadier rhythm that strengthens our communities for the long haul. Send us a text Support the show

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8:37

A Republic Summoned, a Golden Toilet Answered

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/30

Why You Should Listen Because 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 stage. If you want to understand the difference between civic virtue and gaudy fraud — and laugh bitterly along the way — this chronicle is for you. Send us a text Support the show

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14:51

The Thousand Altars: Spirituality in an Age of Isolation

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/28

Why You Should Listen We 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 sacred anymore. But what happens when faith is no longer inherited or communal, but personalized, private, self-curated? This essay wrestles with the strange beauty and the real risks of digital spirituality. From livestreamed communion to VR temples, from curated Bi...

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