Legendary comedian Norm Macdonald, chronicling his longstanding addiction to gambling in his autobiography, recounted in it a moment in which his psychiatrist interpreted his fixation on gambling as a ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture confront the mind-bending concept of nihilism to discover how we can find meaning and purpose when nothing matters.

Philosophy & Rhetoric, Vol. 53, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: IN THE MIDST OF COVID-19 (2020), pp. 312-318 (7 pages) https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.53.3.0312 • https ...

The big-idea explorers at Aperture dive into why nihilism is taking over modern society and what it means for our future.

The weekend bombing of a Palm Springs, Calif., fertility clinic has cast a fresh spotlight on a 19th century philosophy linked to Russian... The weekend bombing of a Palm Springs, Calif., fertility ...

"Art is the field for those who want to know what’s going on, whether they like it or not." This is going to be a little bit dark and weird, but I can’t help it: it’s 2017. The universe doesn’t care ...

A woman named Brittney Hartley has dubbed herself something of a spiritual explorer after spending years of her life devoted to learning about the human experience and achieving multiple degrees in ...

But here’s the rub: “Nihilist” is almost precisely the wrong way to describe groups like ISIS. Not only does it fail to define the group’s worldview, but from their perspective, no word better defines ...