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On the Modern Project

Uncovering the political and philosophical aspirations of the scientific enterprise

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Utopianism •
Disenchantment •
Faith and Science •
Progress •
Scientism •
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Review | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Clare Coffey

Modernity’s Spell

Why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger

Clare Coffey

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Essay | Winter 2019

Winter 2019

  • Jon Askonas

How Tech Utopia Fostered Tyranny

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

Jon Askonas

Correspondence | Summer/Fall 2018

Summer/Fall 2018

Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?

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

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Review | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • Clare Coffey

The Joy of Cryptozoology

The case for exploring the cognitive hinterlands

Clare Coffey

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Essay | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • Jonathan Jong

Faith and the Fear of Death

Confronting our mortality from the lab and the altar

From: Stories of Faith & Science

Jonathan Jong

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Essay | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

  • Jonathan Mosedale

Encounter in the Vale

A story of hiking, frailty, and glimpsing the divine

From: Stories of Faith & Science

Jonathan Mosedale

Essay | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Natalie Elliot

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?

Natalie Elliot

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Review | Winter 2018

Winter 2018

  • Doug Sikkema

Disenchantment, Actually

Modern disenchantment may be a myth, but it is still the water in which we swim.

Doug Sikkema

Essay | Summer/Fall 2017

Summer/Fall 2017

  • Samuel Matlack

Quantum Poetics

Why physics can’t get rid of metaphor

Samuel Matlack

Essay | Winter 2016

Winter 2016

  • Joseph E. Davis

Biomedicine and Its Cultural Authority

The origins of our “health society” and why holistic medicine doesn’t catch on

Joseph E. Davis

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20 years of keeping humanity human

Read a note from our editor on our 20th anniversary and what it takes to sustain the work of The New Atlantis.

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