The Optimistic Nihilists
Life is utterly meaningless, but this is a great opportunity to have fun creating our own meanings—that’s the latest postmodern self-help mantra. The trend known as optimistic nihilism is a…
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What Is Existential Freedom?
Earlier this year, historian Mary Beard got involved in a Twitter spat after she suggested that it was not all that shocking that Oxfam workers had used prostitutes, while on…
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L’Avenir: A Subtle Critique of Western Academia’s Anemic Inertia
In his book, The Strange Death of Europe, Douglas Murray presents this diagnosis of the state of contemporary Western philosophy: “A succession of philosophers and historians spent their lifetimes attempting…
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