Is Nihilism the Logical End of Atheism?
What happens when nihilism is taken to its logical and philosophical conclusion? “Human rights are just like heaven and like God. It’s just a fictional story that we have invented and spread around. It...
View ArticleDostoevsky and American Despair: The Penalty of Nihilism
These chilling words, ringing with despair, come from one of the most striking characters in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s 1866 novel Crime and Punishment, Arkady Ivanovich Svidrigailov: We always imagine...
View ArticleWhat Did Nietzsche Mean by ‘God is Dead’?
In The Gay Science (1882), Friedrich Nietzsche’s character of the madman had proclaimed, “God is dead.” The Time cover for April 8, 1966, turned this proclamation into a provocative question for a...
View ArticleReturning to First Things to Save Civilization
In this most rare and radiant of Wisconsin February’s, with record-high temperatures and ample sunshine, my wife has been tapping trees and making maple syrup. I applaud her efforts, and I gratefully...
View Article‘The New York Times,’ the 1619 Project, and ‘Quid Est Veritas’?
Many of us have heard of the 1619 Project and its attempt to reinvent American history. 1619, according to The New York Times writers, is the year that the first slaves arrived on American soil. And...
View ArticleWhy Solzhenitsyn’s Line Between Good and Evil Matters
We want to think that the line between good and evil is clear and that individuals fall into one camp or another. In The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, “If only it were all...
View Article‘The Great Divorce’: What C.S. Lewis Would Say About Modern ‘Love’
The plot of C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is straightforward. The narrator, who strongly resembles Lewis, boards a bus along with some others traveling from Hell to Heaven. Once they’ve arrived at...
View ArticleThe Secret Purpose of Machiavelli’s ‘The Prince’
The most common view today of 15th-century Florentine philosopher-statesman Niccolò Machiavelli is that he was evil. Dubbed the founder of modern political philosophy, his evil reputation comes from...
View ArticleOur Modern Existential Dilemma Dissolved With Francis Schaeffer
The angst felt by philosophers, the meaninglessness faced by even the greatest modern artists and musicians, and the rampant drug use and trail of despair and nihilism writ large in Western culture...
View ArticleHow Our Culture of Artificiality Is Destroying Objective Reality
I believe it is possible to have common sense “educated” out of you, whether by formal schooling, by one’s culture, or both. When I was studying literature in college, professors would deride any...
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