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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 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

Essay | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Chase W. Nelson

The Humble Scientist

Chase W. Nelson

Essay | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • M. Anthony Mills

Is Pope Francis Anti-Modern?

On the encyclical’s critique of “the technocratic paradigm”

From: Pope Francis on the Environment

M. Anthony Mills

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Review | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • Ari Schulman

The X-Files and the Demon-Haunted World

On why we want to believe

Ari Schulman

Review | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • John Sexton

A Reductionist History of Humankind

The trouble with Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

John Sexton

Review | Spring 2015

Spring 2015

  • James Poulos

Competing to Conform

Peter Thiel on Uber and the Übermensch

James Poulos

Essay | Spring 2015

Spring 2015

  • Jenna Silber Storey
  • Benjamin Storey

Love Conquers All

Reading The Blithedale Romance, a novel of utopian hopes and human passions

From: Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey

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