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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 | Winter 2011

Winter 2011

  • Algis Valiunas

The Last Temptation of Science

On “Rappaccini’s Daughter” and the crooked path to Paradise

From: Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Winter 2011

Winter 2011

  • Hillel Ofek

Why the Arabic World Turned Away from Science

On the lost Golden Age and the rejection of reason

Hillel Ofek

Online Exclusive | April 20, 2011

April 20, 2011

  • Christopher A. Ford

Climate Change and the Politics of Scientism

Christopher A. Ford

Fiction | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ethan Brand

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Earth’s Holocaust

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fiction | Summer 2010

Summer 2010

  • Nathaniel Hawthorne

Fire Worship

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Essay | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Fred Baumann

Humanism and Transhumanism

Fred Baumann

Review | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Jeremy Kessler

Out of the Garden, Into the Laboratory

Jeremy Kessler

Review | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Peter Lopatin

What Scientists Believe

Peter Lopatin

Essay | Fall 2010

Fall 2010

  • Raymond Tallis

What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves

Debunking the tropes of neuromythology

Raymond Tallis

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