It’s a popular and versatile phrase that can be reassuring, a reminder that despite how overwhelmed you feel, nothing matters so go ahead and enjoy that fourth donut. Senate Minority Leader Mitch ...

Recently I took a little break and spent some time catching up on the news. I recognize that this is the antithesis of taking a break. Still, the idea of lounging around reading newspapers with a ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...