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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

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

Essay | Summer 2021

Summer 2021

  • Algis Valiunas

Anthropology as Atonement

Why Claude Lévi-Strauss celebrated every culture but his own

Algis Valiunas

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

Essay | Winter 2021

Winter 2021

  • M. Anthony Mills

The Case Against “STEM”

How blurring the line between science and technology puts both at risk

M. Anthony Mills

Online Exclusive | July 6, 2020

July 6, 2020

  • Aaron Sibarium

Covid Denialists and the Fight over Liberalism

Why the swamp and its drainers were both blind to the threat

From: The Coronavirus Pandemic

Aaron Sibarium

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Hawthorne: Science, Progress, and Human Nature

Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Spirit of Science
Wasting the Water of Life
Artful by Nature
From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires
The Last Temptation of Science
A Far Other Butterfly
The Possibility of Progress
Love Conquers All

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

Review | Fall 2015

Fall 2015

  • John Sexton

A Reductionist History of Humankind

The trouble with Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens

John Sexton

Essay | Fall 2013

Fall 2013

  • Benjamin Storey

Tocqueville on Technology

Did the student of democracy really ignore technology?

Benjamin Storey

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