On the Modern Project

The Analog City and the Digital City

How online life breaks the old political order

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The Mathematician and the Mystic

Simone Weil, her brother André, and truths that do not converge

On the Monster Beat

Why the civic needs the weird

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