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. www.lightagainstempire.com
Episodes
Why You Should Lead
You 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 we discover when we stop pretending and start listening to our own lives. It’s an invitation to explore meaning without fear, reverence without obedience, and truth without losing wonder.
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, and what we lose when the symbols meant to humble us begin to demand our worship instead. It’s a chance to step back, breathe, and ask yourself what remains sacred when everything starts looking lik...
Why you should listen
Because 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 the same, and without surrendering the parts of yourself that refuse to be silenced.
Why You Should Listen
Because 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 mistake outrage for belonging. If you've felt the national mood shift and wondered what broke loose beneath us, this piece gives language to that quiet confusion and offers a clearer way to see the storm ...
Why You Should Listen
You 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 back the curtain on how America turned capitalism into a theology, shows how that quiet shift shaped our fears and our faith, and invites you to imagine an economy that serves people rather than sanctifies p...
Why You Should Listen
Because 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 and your longing for meaning. It is a reminder that the life of the mind and the life of the spirit are not rivals. They are partners in the work of staying awake, staying honest, and staying human.
Why You Should Listen
This 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, or how truth can be shaped long before it reaches us, this reflection might help you feel a little less alone in that confusion.
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 piece offers a moment of recognition and relief. It asks the questions we avoid, laughs at the pressure we pretend not to feel, and points toward a gentler way of being in a culture that never stop...
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 pe...
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’ car...
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ev...
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 ...
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 w...
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.
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” ...
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.
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