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 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 pretending, and the quiet, necessary work of becoming something truer. It...
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 how judicial ambiguity has become a tool of power. It compares today’s cryptic rulings to...
Why You Should Listen
Because we’re all looking for something solid to stand on—and maybe, just maybe, it isn’t one side of the divide but the bridge between them.
This essay is a conversation between two ancient instincts: the longing for something sacred and the determination to face life with clear-eyed reason. It's for the spiritual and the secular alike—those who pray and those who ponder, who kneel before mystery or marvel...
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 be small, holy, and deeply human.
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 decorum. It’s defiance.
The GOP just shoved a flaming dagger of a bill through the he...
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 Christian Nationalist playbook using laughter as a weapon, scripture as theater, and pol...
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.
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