Both Freud and Jung took up Nietzsche’s challenge: to face suffering not as an enemy to be banished, but as the very ground ...

Richard Spencer, leading light of America’s alt-right, said in an interview last year that he was “red-pilled” by reading the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The reference is to “The Matrix”; in the ...

It takes a strong philosopher to assume control of a preposition and propel it into a foreign language. That is what Friedrich Nietzsche did with the word über. In German, it can mean “over,” “beyond, ...

Nietzsche was a renegade. Not only were his writings the subject of much controversy, but it is often speculated that he was a homosexual, something that was not only taboo, but also illegal back then ...

Philosophy professor John Kaag's 2016 book, American Philosophy, was a heady mix of memoir and intellectual history wrapped up in a romantic story of a lost library and new love. In Hiking with ...

Nihilism doesn't have a great reputation. It's associated with existential dread, immorality and Nazis. But writer and journalist Wendy Syfret says the philosophy can also lead to a happy, positive, ...

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Richard Spencer — coiner of the phrase 'alt-right' — infamously yelled "Hail, Trump! Hail, our people! Hail, victory!" at a gathering shortly after the US presidential election in 2016. He elicited ...

Whether they frequented them or not, there aren’t many people living in Western New York that can picture Allentown without Mulligan’s Brick Bar or The Old Pink. In recent months, two tragedies have ...