Nihilism

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Thomas Mann and the European Disease of Nihilism November 27, 2024

One summer’s day in 1952, Thomas Mann lined up at Cambridge University’s Senate House to receive an honorary doctorate. The ceremony passed without incident. Afterwards, an Indian man was seen sidling up to him on King’s Parade. It turned out to be J...

Jordan Peterson’s Prophecies November 20, 2024

At the end of We Who Wrestle with God, Jordan Peterson tells the reader that the book is a “response to the brilliant Nietzsche”. For the  Canadian psychologist and leading prophet of the counter-cultural right, the woke movements on which he wages w...