From time to time, the articles in this column have referred to the philosophical works of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), and many of you rightly have questioned my interest ...

By Aditya Mukherjee When Friedrich Nietzsche declared that ‘God is dead’, he was announcing the onset of a profound ...

The German philosopher Karl Marx famously said religion was “the opium for the masses.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Darwin, ...

A picture of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche features prominently in the artwork for the new Black Sabbath single “God is Dead?” Having previously written about Sabbath’s connection to Nietzsche ...

A story once reached my ears that is almost certainly apocryphal, yet it conveys truth. The story is this: A man was approaching the entrance to a New York City subway station when he looked up and ...

Editor’s note: At the height of the “Is God dead?” controversy in the 1960s, the late MDJ Editor Emeritus Bill Kinney wrote the following column, which first appeared on Christmas Day and later won ...