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. Send us a text Support the show

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. Send us a text Support the show

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 evolve, that wonder can survive dogma, and that human goodness...

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 gone, and a quiet summons to keep tending the fire. Send us a...

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 with its own mediocrity, this essay is an invitation to rememb...

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. Send us a text Support the show

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” who keep showing up to decide the future they no longer have...

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. Send us a text Support the show

Why You Should Listen Because the empire we live under doesn’t wear armor—it wears packaging. Because every phone, tank of gas, and bite of food carries the fingerprints of conquest. Because understanding the empire of extraction isn’t about guilt—it’s about awakening. This isn’t a sermon about despair. It’s a map of memory. It reveals how empire hides in plain sight and how the light of renewal—humility, reciprocity, belonging—can begin wherever we stand. To resist empire is to b...

Why You Should Listen Because we’re starving for something deeper than information. This essay is a reminder that what sustains us isn’t opinion or outrage, but each other. It’s about the sacred act of making room: for the friend, the stranger, the skeptic, the tired. You’ll find no sermon here, only an invitation: to sit at the long table of life, to remember that every act of generosity feeds more than the body, and to rediscover what Whitman, Gibran, and so many others knew—our shared huma...

Why You Should Listen If you’ve ever felt that modern life demands your faith without calling it that, this essay is for you. When Ideology Becomes Idolatry asks what happens when our deepest convictions—about progress, politics, or reason itself—start to look more like worship than wisdom. It’s not a sermon against belief; it’s an invitation to examine what quietly rules your attention and shapes your conscience. Read this if you’re weary of shouting matches disguised as dialogue, if you sus...

Why You Should Listen Because this essay isn’t about politics—it’s about civilization’s quiet heartbeat. You’ll see how decline begins not with explosions but with indifference, and why competence, care, and moral responsibility are revolutionary acts in an age that confuses noise for leadership. It’s a reminder that empires fall when people forget how to maintain what matters—and that renewal still begins with those who do the work no one else will. Send us a text Support the show

Why You Should Listen “The Church of the Algorithm” Because we’ve built cathedrals out of code and mistaken them for temples of truth. Because the same hunger that once built altars now builds apps. Because in a world obsessed with certainty, awe has become an act of rebellion. This essay is for anyone who’s ever felt both amazed and uneasy at how technology, politics, and data have become our new faiths. It’s a reflection for those who suspect that the soul doesn’t disappear in a digital age...

Why you should listen If the daily crisis cycle keeps stealing your energy and clarity, this essay offers a way out. I’m talking to you, and I’m talking to myself. Together we can refuse the manipulation of urgency and choose a slower, steadier rhythm that strengthens our communities for the long haul. Send us a text Support the show

Why You Should Listen Because the Republic has summoned a savior before — and once it got a farmer who gave everything and wanted nothing. This time, we got a man who gilds his toilets, trademarks his name, and never leaves the stage. If you want to understand the difference between civic virtue and gaudy fraud — and laugh bitterly along the way — this chronicle is for you. Send us a text Support the show

Why You Should Listen We live in a world where the chapel is in your pocket, the priest is an algorithm, and silence comes packaged as an app feature. For many, this isn’t just a convenience—it’s the only way they engage with the sacred anymore. But what happens when faith is no longer inherited or communal, but personalized, private, self-curated? This essay wrestles with the strange beauty and the real risks of digital spirituality. From livestreamed communion to VR temples, from curated Bi...

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

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 ...

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...

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...