We live in an age of humanitarianism that rhymes far too closely with nihilism. The modern discourse of aid and compassion has become a theatre of posturing, a stage on which politicians and ...

“Nihilism” comes from the Latin word nihil, or nothing, or “that which does not exist.” Nihilism can be defined as the belief that all values, and therefore institutions, are baseless ...

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“There’s no point in saving for the future because we’re going to have war, revolution, and it’s all going to come to a violent end.” I’ve also heard that young people aren’t saving for retirement ...

According to political theorist Wendy Brown, in her book Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber, a sense of nihilism pervades the modern world, a condition in which traditional values and ...

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Trump wants us to believe that nothing matters, so we'll brush off all his corruption and grifting as though everybody does it. That's what aspiring authoritarians always do, including the guy who ...

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