The insightful Bruce Charlton writes about nihilism as if it were a pathology of idealizing emptiness: Modern Western people are strikingly lacking in powerful motivators, compared with earlier ...

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Blame it on the ‘08 Recession, climate change or Tumblr’s own Matty Healy, buta nihilism somehow became cool. There is a lot of social clout available to people who simply cannot be bothered to ...

“It turns out that when you mix narcissism and nihilism, you create an acid that corrodes every belief system it touches.” This is the assessment my friend David Brooks offers in the latest ...

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From the creator of Enlightenment, the lack of spiritual depth is one of the most mysterious and annoying aspects of this season of The White Lotus. And this season’s nihilism is the other big ...

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Some of the best cartoons from the 1990s are slowly fading into obscurity, from Cow and Chicken to CatDog. Which ones are worth remembering?