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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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 voi…
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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 showBy Light Against Empire
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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 car…
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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 …
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The Trial of the Gods for Crimes Against Humanity
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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 objecti…
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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 int…
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Icarus in a Jetpack: American Hubris and the Fall We All Saw Coming
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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…
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I Know Not the Gods, But I Know of Their Sweetness
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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 swee…
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Why You Should Listen We 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 …
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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 try…
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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…
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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 w…
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Caligula’s Horse and the Death of Competence
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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 a…
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Why You Should Listen: For the Ones Who Wouldn’t Bow This isn't a sermon. It's not a slogan. It's a recognition. A secular litany for those who told the truth and paid for it. For the whistleblowers, the exiles, the last ones standing at meetings full of silence. For the ones who wouldn't laugh along, bow down, or bite their tongues. If you've ever…
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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 …
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Why You Should Read This Because there comes a time when silence becomes surrender, and goodness demands more than belief, it demands a stand. This essay names the moral line too many still refuse to see, and invites you to step across it with clarity, courage, and conscience. If you’ve felt the ground shift beneath your feet, if you’ve struggled t…
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Why You Should Read This Because the republic didn’t collapse in a day. It was chipped away—by cowards, clowns, and climbers. This essay isn’t just about Cicero weeping in a bathroom stall. It’s about the death of deliberation, the triumph of theater, and what it means to still care when everyone else has monetized their surrender. If you’ve ever l…
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We the Unready: On the Soulcraft of Democracy
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Why You Should Read This We often ask what’s wrong with the system. This essay asks what’s happened to us. Before we rewrite the Republic, we must examine the people holding the pen. We the Unready is not a policy critique—it’s a moral reckoning. It’s about soulcraft, memory, and the kind of character democracy requires to survive. If you believe t…
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The Fire Thief’s Curse: Why Truth-Tellers Are Punished
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Why You Should Listen: Because Prometheus is still chained—and you might be holding the fire he gave. This essay isn’t just a myth retold. It’s a mirror held up to now. If you’ve ever warned the room and been ignored, ever paid the price for seeing clearly, or ever felt the weight of knowing too soon—this one is for you. Come for the Greek tragedy,…
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The Sacred and the Rational: Toward a Unified Moral Vision
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Why You Should Read This Because we’re not just living in an age of collapse—we’re living in an age of disconnection. Not only from institutions or each other, but from meaning itself. Because too many are telling us to choose: soul or science, ritual or reason, belief or evidence—as if wholeness demands allegiance to only half the truth. Because t…
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We thePeople, Again: A New Continental Congress for a New America
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Why You Should Listen Because the country you were told to believe in may never have believed in you. Because the promise you were raised on might have been someone else’s inheritance. Because pretending everything’s fine is how we got here. Because democracy isn’t a souvenir—it’s a practice. And right now, it’s on life support. Because the story w…
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We Are Not One People; We Have Never Been
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Why You Should Listen If you've ever felt a quiet grief for the country you thought you knew—if you're struggling to reconcile the ideals you were taught with the reality you see—this essay is for you. It doesn’t offer platitudes or easy hope. Instead, it offers something more honest: a clear-eyed look at the myth of American unity, the cost of pre…
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Why You Should Listen Because our highest court is starting to sound less like a pillar of democracy and more like a mystic riddle machine. Because if you’ve ever squinted at a Supreme Court ruling and thought, “Wait… did they just legalize that or vaporize it?”—you’re not alone. This essay pulls back the velvet curtain (and the smoke machine) on h…
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The Liturgy of Refusal: Sacred Acts in a Profane Age
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Why You Should Listen In a world that rewards noise, cruelty, and numbness, this essay is a quiet call to sacred defiance. The Liturgy of Refusal isn’t about grand gestures—it’s about daily acts that keep your soul intact when the culture asks you to sell it. If you're tired, heartbroken, or quietly outraged, this is your reminder: resistance can b…
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Special Edition: This is not a Bill. Its a Declaration of War on the People
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Why You Should Read This Because the GOP and their “Big Beautiful Bill" want you to feel powerless—and that’s precisely when you must remember your power. This essay is not a think piece. It’s a warning flare. It’s what happens when a lifetime of service collides with the brute spectacle of a government punching down. What you’ll find here isn’t de…
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Christian National Lampoon: Vacationing in the Theocracy You Never Asked For
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Why You Should Listen Because this isn’t just satire—it’s survival instinct with a microphone. Christian National Lampoon: Vacationing in the Theocracy You Never Asked For takes you on a blistering, bitingly funny tour through the rising movement that wants to turn your democracy into a sanctuary city for spiritual authoritarianism. We expose the C…
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A Forensic Report from the Scene of the Collapse...Today’s episode comes courtesy of the Office of Historical Forensics, Department of Political Pathology. That’s right—dust off your latex gloves and crank up the formaldehyde. We’re opening up a cold one. And by that, I mean a political party that’s been dead for decades. Send us a text Support the…
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