On the Modern Project

The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers

The unpublished manuscripts and their author's changing image

From: The Unknown Newton

In Defense of Prejudice, Sort of

Modernity and Our American Heresies

How our Puritan and Lockean founders built better than they knew

The Optimistic Science of Leibniz

On his encyclopedic project of physics and faith

Evolution and Ethics, Revisited

How “Darwin’s bulldog” opposed social Darwinism

Fantasy and the Buffered Self

The genre offers re-enchantment without risk.

The Sacred Power of the World

An improbable journey from eco-activism to the priesthood

The Genius and Faith of Faraday and Maxwell

Tocqueville on Technology

Did the student of democracy really ignore technology?

Scientism in the Arts and Humanities

Why art is more than matter and meme