“Nihilistic Violent Extremist:” President Donald Trump’s administration created this new category of domestic threat (they would say “terrorist”) in the wake of conservative activist and media figure ...

“Nihilism” comes from the Latin word nihil, or nothing, or “that which does not exist.” Nihilism can be defined as the belief that all values, and therefore institutions, are baseless. Consequently, ...

To the editor: I’m writing in response to the March 14 column titled “The new age of American nihilism.” An image of a painting of Friedrich Nietzsche accompanied the opinion. I was surprised to read ...

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, ...