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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

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7:59

Plato's Cave

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/24

Why You Should Listen Because 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 and asks the uncomfortable question: Why are we so willing to stay in the dark when daylight is right outside? Send us a text Support the show

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11:02

Learning to Breathe Through the Smog

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/24

Why You Should Listen Because 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 practicing clarity, protecting your own mind, and finding fresh air in community. It’s both a survival guide and a moral compass for living through the poison of public lies. If you’ve ever wondered how to stay human when the truth itself feels under siege, this one’s ...

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10:17

When Federal Policing Becomes Regime Policing - A...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/20

Why You Should Listen This 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 the SS, then fused under the RSHA. From there, resistance inside the system was impossible. Today, ICE is draining local departments, DHS is weaving permanent task forces, and the FBI sits quietly but firmly at the top. The parallels aren’t exact, but the rhyme is undenia...

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9:46

The Sacred and the Profaned

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/16

Why you should listen If 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 wreckage, The Sacred and the Profaned is a humanist’s indictment of Christian nationalism, prosperity gospel grifters, and the empire-church that blesses cruelty while branding it holy. It’s not a theological debate. It’s a moral trial. And it ends with a benedict...

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10:12

Don’t Let the World Steal Your Name

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/16

Why You Should Listen We 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. From history’s darkest examples to today’s subtle erasures, I explore what it means to hold your name intact and why that act is both spiritual resilience and civic defiance. If you’ve ever felt reduced, dismissed, or written over, this one is for you. Send u...

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9:42

The Country of Smoke and Noise

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/14

Why You Should Listen Because 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 rootedness can steady us when chaos is wielded as a political weapon. If you’ve ever felt exhausted by the endless spectacle but still yearn for clarity, this piece is your invitation to step out of the noise and stand on firmer ground. Send us a text Suppo...

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11:23

The Face Beneath the Masks

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/10

Why You Should Listen We live in a time that rewards masks—public smiles, private evasions, curated lives that look whole but feel fractured. This essay is my attempt to strip those layers back and ask what it means to be one person in public and in private, without performance or disguise. Drawing on wisdom from Baldwin, Confucius, and quieter voices like Montaigne, Jane Addams, and Bashō, I reflect on how integrity isn’t a heroic posture but a daily practice. If you’ve ever felt the tug bet...

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6:42

The Chorus Has Left the Theater

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/10

Why You Should isten What happens when those meant to speak fall silent, when the witnesses turn into brand ambassadors? This is a reckoning for the Chorus—for us. Not a metaphor. A mirror. Send us a text Support the show

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11:31

The Still Place in a Turning World

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/06

Why You Should Listen This 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 resistance, preparation, and survival. If the world feels overwhelming, this is a reminder that you already carry the still point within you. Send us a text Support the show

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8:47

The Digital Soul: What AI Reveals About Us

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/02

Why You Should Listen We’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 things once sought from faith, from reason, and from one another. This essay isn’t about AI’s power. It’s about our hunger. About what it means when we lean on algorithms for comfort, when we treat probability like prophecy, when we confuse an echo for eternity. ...

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7:03

The Trial of the Gods for Crimes Against Humanity

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/09/02

Why You Should Listen Imagine 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 Roman gods for their crimes against humanity. But the joke isn’t just divine mischief—it’s a mirror. Every absurd objection, every thunderbolt filibuster, every goat in the jury echoes what we see in our own leaders: impunity, arrogance, and justice played as theater....

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11:44

The Oath We Took in Silence

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/31

Why You Should Listen Because 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, but on the unspoken covenants of conscience we keep when no one is watching. If you’ve ever wondered whether integrity still matters, whether honor still has a pulse in this country, this is your answer. Send us a text Support the show

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6:30

Icarus in a Jetpack: American Hubris and the Fall We...

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/25

Why You Should Listen They 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 happens when the myth of progress turns into a business model for collapse? This week’s Chronicles of Collapse unpacks one of the oldest cautionary tales—Icarus—and brings it flaming into the present. We’re not just flying too close to the sun. We’re livestreaming it. We’...

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4:36

I Know Not the Gods, But I Know of Their Sweetness

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/24

Why You Should Listen This 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. It asks what remains when tyrants rise, empires collapse, and gods fall silent. The answer is not certainty, but sweetness—the kind that lingers in mountains, in seas, in children’s laughter. If you’ve ever felt abandoned by heaven yet pierced by the beauty of ear...

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9:37

When News Sounds Like Weather

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/20

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 swipe. Words that matter. That is why I write here. Not to add more volume to the din, but to carve out a place where reflection outruns reaction, where clarity resists the fog, where hope refuses to be extinguished. When you listen to Light Against Empire, you are ...

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7:43

Diogenes Goes to Washington

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/19

Why You Should Listen to Diogenes Goes to Washington What 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 here. This essay is dark comedy with teeth. You’ll see Diogenes live-tweeting his way through Capitol Hill, TSA agents trying to confiscate his lantern, lobbyists begging to slap corporate logos on it, and a President who can’t laugh off being told he isn’t honest. Lis...

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10:13

No Cathedral Built Itself

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/19

Why You Should listen to No Cathedral Built Itself Because 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 about the slow, sacred work that outlives us. The kind of labor Gaudí began, knowing he would never see the end. The kind of patience and integrity that builds character across a lifetime, and community across generations. It’s not a sermon about perfection. It’s a meditation on...

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9:28

The War for Your Interior Life

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/17

Why You Should Listen In 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 you that the world tries to fracture—your soul’s clarity, your presence, your peace. It’s a fire lit reminder that stillness is not weakness, and your attention is the most sacred ground you still own. Listen to this when you feel pulled in too many directions. Listen to this whe...

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7:49

Caligula’s Horse and the Death of Competence

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/17

Why You Should Listen Once 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 proving that power can mock the system and the people will eventually get used to it. This isn’t just history. It’s a mirror. In an era where loyalty is valued over competence, and absurd appointments are sold as “refreshing” or “outsider” choices, Caligula’s stunt feels...

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8:37

The Day the Republic Went Missing

Light Against Empire - The Podcast ·

2025/08/08

Why You Should Listen to This Some 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 error” — is more dangerous than the deletion itself. From the burning of Alexandria to the chisels of Rome, the pattern is clear: regimes erase what they plan to break. If you want to understand the playbook and how to fight it, start here. This isn’t a blip. It’s the b...

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