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On the Modern Project

Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Utopianism •
Disenchantment •
Faith and Science •
Progress •
Scientism •
All

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Samuel Matlack

Why the Progress Debate Goes Nowhere

You say “jetpacks,” I say “cabin in the woods,” let’s call the whole thing off.

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Samuel Matlack

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Lauren Spohn

Dinner with Dinosaurs

The right’s new love of technological progress isn’t a good enough answer to the left’s progressive ideology. What are they both missing?

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Lauren Spohn

Essay | Fall 2024

Fall 2024

  • Yuval Levin

For Whom Shall We Build?

Marc Andreessen wants us to go faster. But what does that matter if nobody’s left in the car?

From: What Calls to Build Miss

Yuval Levin

Review | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Charles T. Rubin

Virtual Reality Reboots History

The American dream has always meant living in our own fantasy worlds. Maybe it’s time to really go for it.

Charles T. Rubin

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Ari Schulman

Open Wallets, Empty Hearts

Effective altruism asked us to do more good by becoming less human.

Ari Schulman

Essay | Summer 2024

Summer 2024

  • Clare Coffey

Who Wants to Believe in UFOs?

Strange things in the skies of a clockwork universe

Clare Coffey

Review | Spring 2024

Spring 2024

  • Geoff Shullenberger

Turn on, Tune in, Write Code

How psychedelics went from counterculture to grind culture

Geoff Shullenberger

Review | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Rachel Altman

Barbie vs. Botox

Transhumanism is so over. Wrinkles are so back.

Rachel Altman

Review | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Robert Bellafiore

Accelerating to Where?

The anti-politics of the new jet pack lament

Robert Bellafiore

Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • Nadia Asparouhova

Tech Strikes Back

“Accelerationism” is an overdue corrective to years of doom and gloom in Silicon Valley.

Nadia Asparouhova

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