In a striking front-page innovation in Hindustan Times, OTTplay reimagined the viral ‘nihilist penguin’ moment, not as a ...

The big thinkers at Aperture examine nihilism and the search for life’s meaning.

Documentary footage of a ‘Nihilistic Penguin’ walking toward certain death has gone viral—where did it come from and what ...

Netflix’s latest Korean blockbuster The Great Flood has surged to the top of the platform’s global charts for nonglobal films, but audiences are divided over its cryptic ending and philosophical twist ...

Millennials and Gen Z are accused of treating finance like a game. They trade options, buy meme coins, play prediction markets and bet on sports as if the entire economy were a casino. The criticism ...

Legendary comedian Norm Macdonald, chronicling his longstanding addiction to gambling in his autobiography, recounted in it a moment in which his psychiatrist interpreted his fixation on gambling as a ...

After the world was struck by the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the heart of Utah’s “Happy Valley,” the state’s governor told the nation to go touch grass. His point was that ...

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It’s no secret that Gen Z has a less optimistic economic outlook than older generations. So it’s no wonder many of them are engaging in so-called financial nihilism, applying a gloomy outlook to their ...

Nihilism joins other scapegoats — children of Azazel — in being excuses for human bad behavior. Humans blame those instead of correcting the bad behavior. This enables humans to exist in a more ...

Last Tuesday, I was among those who witnessed, in person, a political assassination we can never unsee. The senseless act of violence that took the life of my friend, Charlie Kirk, has exposed a rot ...