(CNN) — 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,” ...

Following photojournalist James Foley’s gruesome death last week at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, nihilism has become, quite suddenly, the “ism” du jour. President Obama condemned ...

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 ...

Purpose anxiety is a real phenomenon, and it’s far more common than you might think. Research by Larissa Rainey and colleagues has shown that up to 91% of people experience purpose anxiety at some ...

Most historians view the French Revolution as the source of the ideologies that have shaped the modern and postmodern eras. For any ism—from liberalism, conservatism, and communism to nationalism, ...

The weekend bombing of a Palm Springs, Calif., fertility clinic has cast a fresh spotlight on a 19th century philosophy linked to Russian... The weekend bombing of a Palm Springs, Calif., fertility ...

The Nation spoke with the political theorist about the multifront crisis of the post-Trump era and the moral and intellectual commitments of scholars and higher education. Wendy Brown. In her recent ...