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 ...

There can be little doubt that Nietzsche is the most important figure in modern atheism, but you would never know it from reading the current crop of unbelievers, who rarely cite his arguments or even ...

An illustration depicting the Mahad Satyagraha led by BR Ambedkar on March 20, 1927, to allow untouchables to use water in a ...

If you’ve read the sullen German philosopher, you might not believe that Nietzsche would have wanted you to be happy. But author Nate Anderson has done what few of us who only know the phrase “God is ...

Given that the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche died in 1900, it might seem to be a stretch to turn to his ideas for inspiration about how to navigate the pitfalls of digital technology. And yet, since ...

In the first essay of Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals (OGM), he lays out his famous accusation: Christianity is the religion of the downtrodden, the bullied, the weak, the poor and the slave.

Nietzsche points to hatred in the Christian breast, but doesn't appreciate that it is the byproduct of a victory over real violence The thinker that has done most to mount a defence of Christianity ...

How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold, by Philipp Felsch, trans. Daniel Bowles (Cambridge: Polity, 2024), $29.95 The most learned man I know suggests a comic figure. He is bald, short, and excitable. He ...

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 ...