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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 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

Symposium | Summer 2013

Summer 2013

Science, Technology, and Religion

The Golem and the Limits of Artifice
Disenchantment and Its Discontents
Redeeming Technologies
The Trouble with the New “Islamic Science”
Implicit Science in Hindu Thought
Science through Buddhist Eyes
Science and the Search for Meaning

Symposium | Summer 2011

Summer 2011

Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

Why We Need a ‘Stuck with Virtue’ Science
The Case for Enhancing People
Liberation Biology, Lost in the Cosmos
Machine Morality and Human Responsibility
The Problem with ‘Friendly’ Artificial Intelligence
The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature
Justice without Foundations

Symposium | Winter 2015

Winter 2015

The Unknown Newton

Church, Heresy, and Pure Religion
The Problem of Alchemy
Cosmos and Apocalypse
The Book of Nature, the Book of Scripture
The Strange Tale of Newton’s Papers

Symposium | Fall 2009 - Winter 2010

Fall 2009 - Winter 2010

Science, the Humanities, and the University

Science and the Decline of the Liberal Arts
The Technocratic American University
Human Dignity and Higher Education
The Soul of the Scientist of Man
The Ivy League Lament

Special Series

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

Symposium | Spring 2018

Spring 2018

Stories of Faith & Science

Faith and the Fear of Death
Encounter in the Vale

Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • L. M. Sacasas

The Analog City and the Digital City

How online life breaks the old political order

L. M. Sacasas

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