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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 | Summer 2023

Summer 2023

  • Jon Askonas

An America of Secrets

Democracy dies in darkness.

From: Reality: A Post-Mortem

Jon Askonas

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • M. Anthony Mills

What Does “Scientific Progress” Mean, Anyway?

Three ways we think about science flourishing — or getting stuck

M. Anthony Mills

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Jon Askonas

What Was the Fact?

Here lies a beloved friend of social harmony (ca. 1500–2000). It was nice while it lasted.

From: Reality: A Post-Mortem

Jon Askonas

Essay | Spring 2023

Spring 2023

  • Tara Isabella Burton

Rational Magic

Why a Silicon Valley culture that was once obsessed with reason is going woo

Tara Isabella Burton

Correspondence | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Adam Roberts
  • Alan Jacobs

Overthinking Heroism

An exchange on when heroes run away

Adam Roberts and Alan Jacobs

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • John Ehrett

Can There Be a Conservative Futurism?

The retreat from time is not a winning answer to our tech malaise.

John Ehrett

Essay | Winter 2023

Winter 2023

  • Adam Roberts

Who’s Afraid of Cowardice?

We’re brain-fried on superhero fistfights. It’s time to learn from heroes who run away.

Adam Roberts

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Sam Kahn

Bacon Bacon Shakespeare Spy

One brilliant madwoman’s quest to show that the Bard’s works were secretly penned by the father of science, at war with his own creation

Sam Kahn

Essay | Fall 2022

Fall 2022

  • Nat Watkins

The Secret Life of Leftovers

Cheese, curry, beer: We can thank our ancestors who put food scraps to creative use. What we’re leaving our children is garbage.

Nat Watkins

Review | Spring 2022

Spring 2022

  • Alan Rome

Sad Trek

How an exhausted liberalism killed sci-fi’s sunniest franchise

Alan Rome

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20 years of keeping humanity human

Read a note from our editor on our 20th anniversary and what it takes to sustain the work of The New Atlantis.

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