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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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 10 minutes
- Episodes
- 27
- Years Active
- 2025
The Still Place in a Turning World
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…
The Digital Soul: What AI Reveals About Us
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: p…
The Trial of the Gods for Crimes Against Humanity
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–s…
The Oath We Took in Silence
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…
Icarus in a Jetpack: American Hubris and the Fall We All Saw Coming
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 m…
I Know Not the Gods, But I Know of Their Sweetness
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 wor…
When News Sounds Like Weather
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. W…
No Cathedral Built Itself
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.
Thi…
Diogenes Goes to Washington
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 …
The War for Your Interior Life
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 reclaim…
Caligula’s Horse and the Death of Competence
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 ho…
For the Ones Who Wouldn't Bow
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, t…
The Day the Republic Went Missing
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 offici…
Cicero Would Cry in the Senate Bathroom
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 abou…
This Far, No Further
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 …
We the Unready: On the Soulcraft of Democracy
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…
The Fire Thief’s Curse: Why Truth-Tellers Are Punished
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…
The Sacred and the Rational: Toward a Unified Moral Vision
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…
We thePeople, Again: A New Continental Congress for a New America
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 pretendin…
The Liturgy of Refusal: Sacred Acts in a Profane Age
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…