Article on nihilism, and the loss of community and meaning. First published on the now-defunct Ritual magazine website, June 2015. Reflections on the failures of the 2014 Wheeler Hall Occupation—small ...

You read a lot on the internet about rituals that can help you be better in the morning or leap over tall building with a single bound. Maybe some celebrity does this one or that one. Yeah, wonderful.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas about his new book, Ritual: How Seemingly Senseless Acts Make Life Worth Living. Growing up in Greece, Dimitris Xygalatas remembers ...