“Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, in which things go well, needs and desire are easily satisfied, and difficult or taxing entanglements ...

In a reply to a recent post I published on death and the meaning of life, a reader identified as Anonymous wrote, among other things, "I think life is meaningless in a vacuum. One imposes value upon ...

PROTOMARTYR’S MUSIC is a slow burn, the musical equivalent of paint peeling off walls and vines overtaking manmade structures. Fittingly, the noise-rock band formed in Detroit, a city mythologized for ...

When the meaning of life is brought up, the usual attitude towards it is mystification. Few people in modern times take the meaning of life for granted. They assume that it is the same as the mystery ...

Have you ever felt that things are meaningless? The notion that things are devoid of meaning, no matter how small, can be called nihilism. Nihilism is a philosophy, but according to writer Nolen Gertz ...

My daughter recently performed in a production of Romeo and Juliet at our local community theater. As I strained my brain to understand the “thees” and “thous”, it reminded me of my favorite quote ...