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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

Review | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • Caitrin Keiper

Modernity and the Fall

One weird trick to re-enchant the world

Caitrin Keiper

Review | Fall 2021

Fall 2021

  • Brad East

Statistics as Storytelling

America’s defining cultural artifact is the economics white paper.

Brad East

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Algis Valiunas

Anthropology as Atonement

Why Claude Lévi-Strauss celebrated every culture but his own

Algis Valiunas

Review | Spring 2021

Spring 2021

  • David Guaspari

Math and Modernity

How Descartes’s geometry quietly launched a revolution

David Guaspari

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • Algis Valiunas

A Scientist’s Mind, a Poet’s Soul

On the unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Case Against “STEM”

How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk

M. Anthony Mills

Online Exclusive | July 6, 2020

July 6, 2020

  • Aaron Sibarium

Covid Denialists and the Fight over Liberalism

Why the swamp and its drainers were both blind to the threat

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Aaron Sibarium

Symposium | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

Science, Technology, and Religion

The Golem and the Limits of Artifice
Disenchantment and Its Discontents
Redeeming Technologies
The Trouble with the New “Islamic Science”
Implicit Science in Hindu Thought
Science through Buddhist Eyes
Science and the Search for Meaning

Symposium | Summer 2011

Summer 2011

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Why We Need a ‘Stuck with Virtue’ Science
The Case for Enhancing People
Liberation Biology, Lost in the Cosmos
Machine Morality and Human Responsibility
The Problem with ‘Friendly’ Artificial Intelligence
The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature
Justice without Foundations

Symposium | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

The Unknown Newton

Church, Heresy, and Pure Religion
The Problem of Alchemy
Cosmos and Apocalypse
The Book of Nature, the Book of Scripture
The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers
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