“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, ...

Nihilism is a scholarly sounding philosophical term. It basically refers to a belief system that rejects absolute truths, morality, values and any intrinsic meaning or purpose to life. Its Latin root ...

An Oregon teen arrested last month in connection with an alleged mass shooting plot targeting a mall in southwestern Washington subscribed to a “nihilistic violent extremist ideology,” according to ...

Re “The Rise of Right-Wing Nihilism,” by David Brooks (column, Aug. 22): Mr. Brooks echoes an argument I’ve made, mostly fruitlessly, for the past quarter-century or more. Growing up in the conformist ...

The artist’s soundscapes envision a society devoid of structures like gender and identity. For Nat Ćmiel, Yeule isn’t just an artistic alias; it’s a cyborg entity that the self-described “glitch ...

David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. Nihilism rejects the existence of meaning and significance in life and the cosmos, ...

At the Vatican’s Good Friday liturgy, the papal preacher warned against the danger of believers being drawn into the “vortex of nihilism” by the postmodern world’s “total relativism.” Capuchin ...

At the Vatican’s Good Friday liturgy, the papal preacher warned against the danger of believers being drawn into the “vortex of nihilism” by the post-modern world’s "total relativism." Cardinal ...