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

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"The term Nihilistic Violent Extremism (NVE) refers to what is motivating some of these subjects to commit criminal acts," the FBI wrote in a statement to NPR. "They want to sow chaos and facilitate ...

Amid a burst of high-profile targeted violence, authorities have identified a new source of terror.

This dynamic is everywhere now. It exists in political memes and propaganda. It drives broad swaths of popular culture. A kind of post-ironic fatalism that was once endemic to seedy message boards has ...

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 ...

Why the breakdown of meaning and an embodied identity fuels extremist violence.

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

Officials investigating a fatal weekend explosion at a desert California fertility clinic that killed one and injured several others said the suspect "had nihilistic ideations" and believed it was ...