Across America, political anger is spilling into the open, and on the left it increasingly takes a violent shape. The unrest ...
A century and a half ago the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche launched his crusade against the threat of nihilism. Nihilism (literally, nothing-ism) was a term coined by novelist Ivan Turgenev to ...
This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is ...
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The übermensch (superman) is not coming

GERMAN philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche introduced the concept of the “übermensch” or superman. This refers to a human being ...
Most historians view the French Revolution as the source of the ideologies that have shaped the modern and postmodern eras. For any ism—from liberalism, conservatism, and communism to nationalism, ...
Seinfeld: What’s the show about? Costanza: It’s about nothing. Seinfeld: It’s about nothing? Costanza: Absolutely nothing. Everybody is doing something. We are doing nothing. Seinfeld: I think you may ...