Nihilism

CR101 Radio - Podcast Network · Mar 6, 2026 · 17m

In Nihilism, Rushdoony traces the destructive power of nihilism as both a philosophy and a pervasive mood that rejects all authority, meaning, and hope, replacing faith with cynicism and a lust for destruction. From pre-revolutionary Russia to the modern West, he shows how nihilism fuels violence, despair, and social collapse, whether directed against church, family, or state, and how even statist regimes ultimately breed the very nihilism that undermines their authority. By denying God, humanism reduces life to meaninglessness, driving people toward fantasy, occultism, and suicidal impulses…