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“Nothing matters.” This bleak sense that Donald Trump could not be stopped became a refrain for battered progressives when he was first elected four years ago. Now, with the next election a month away ...

Amen H. Gashaw ’24 was the president of the Institute of Politics in 2023. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless!” Those words could’ve been spoken yesterday, perhaps by a cynical citizen or ...

Those who read me regularly at The Week and on Twitter have probably noticed an occasional tendency toward nihilism. I don't mean that I sometimes act as if everything is permitted in a godless ...