Periods of happiness are empty pages in history,” he wrote in his Introduction to the Philosophy of History, “for they are the periods of harmony, times when the antithesis is missing.” In other words ...

The assault on Enlightenment values is tearing both Europe and America apart.

Having just clocked up one thousand episodes of At the Movies, reviewer Simon Morris shares his favourite film scores with ...

"Unshittification" is not always the result of "innovation"—sometimes it's just about treating people decently. Responding to ...

In July 1980, manager Rob Gretton suggested an array of names that included The Sunshine Valley Dance Band, The Witch Doctors ...

Another ended up living out his days in the mountains, Mr. Wallace reports, “alone with his cat—Nietzsche—and a large gun collection.” Overlapping with the cypherpunks was another group ...

This notion — that man can pick himself up by his bootstraps — reached its apogee in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, who gave us the word übermensch (superman). “Love yourself ...

Nietzsche famously wrote that he who has a why to live for can endure any how. If you are gripped by a profound desire, you can endure the setbacks but proceed with determination. How do people ...