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On the Modern Project

Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise

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Utopianism •
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Faith and Science •
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Essay | Winter 2024

Winter 2024

  • William Boyce

What Is Space For?

Why we gaze and why we should go

William Boyce

Review | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Nicholas Clairmont

Warm Planet, Cool Heads

A new book warns against pushing all the world’s problems into the climate bucket.

Nicholas Clairmont

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Louise Liebeskind

If Scientists Were Angels

Francis Bacon has been charged with robbing science of its innocence. But what if we’ve all been reading him wrong?

From: The New Atlantis at 20

Louise Liebeskind

Essay | Fall 2023

Fall 2023

  • Ari Schulman

Who Is The New Atlantis For?

Why 20 years of throwing cold water on utopianism found an audience

From: The New Atlantis at 20

Ari Schulman

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

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