On the Modern Project

Enlightenment Later

Will reason survive rationalism?

Crusoe at the Crossroads

On Robinson Crusoe, Lost, New Atlantis, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural

Tell Him Something Pretty

On Deadwood’s lowly view of reason

Modernity’s Spell

Why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger

How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny

Authoritarians’ love for digital technology is no fluke — it’s a product of Silicon Valley’s “smart” paternalism

Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?

Debating The Myth of Disenchantment by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm

The Joy of Cryptozoology

The case for exploring the cognitive hinterlands

Faith and the Fear of Death

Confronting our mortality from the lab and the altar

From: Stories of Faith & Science

Encounter in the Vale

A story of hiking, frailty, and glimpsing the divine

From: Stories of Faith & Science

Shakespeare’s Worlds of Science

New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval?