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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 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

Essay | Winter 2022

Winter 2022

  • Samuel Matlack

How Tech Despair Can Set You Free

Jacques Ellul on escaping the totalizing grip of “technique”

Samuel Matlack

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

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