Epistemic Nihilism Leaves Only Brute Force
Some modern proponents of identity politics causes, influenced a little by Marxism and a lot by postmodernism, claim that power is what matters, not truth. What we…
Was Ayn Rand Nothing More Than a Nihilist? A Review of Aaron Weinacht’s “Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America”
Aaron Weinacht. Nikolai Chernyshevskii and Ayn Rand: Russian Nihilism Travels to America. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Research requires that one peruses all relevant secondary literature, at…
Why Don’t Nihilists Remain Silent? For mickvet
Shakespeare’s Macbeth speaks the following lines: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time;…
Nihilism in the Movies
Sometimes learning involves the introduction of new facts. At other times, it is a matter of noticing what is already in front of your nose; a change…
Is Life Worth Living?
Faith and Hope Discerning the nature of ultimate reality is a matter of intuition.[1] A religious experience, for instance, needs to be interpreted and understood by the…
Dominium v. Auctoritas: Nihilism and the Political Community
Anamnesis is a remembering or recollection of the orienting truths of existence that ought never to be forgotten. Mircea Eliade, in his Myth and Reality, wrote that…
The Growth of the Liberal Soul (Part I)
In one sense liberal theory and politics have always been in a state of crisis. Even in its earliest appearance in the reflections of John Locke and…