On the Modern Project

Dinner with Dinosaurs

The right’s new love of technological progress isn’t a good enough answer to the left’s progressive ideology. What are they both missing?

From: What Calls to Build Miss

What Is Space For?

Why we gaze and why we should go

Can There Be a Conservative Futurism?

The retreat from time is not a winning answer to our tech malaise.

The Mathematician and the Mystic

Simone Weil, her brother André, and truths that do not converge

On the Monster Beat

Why the civic needs the weird

Crusoe at the Crossroads

On Robinson Crusoe, Lost, New Atlantis, and why we keep returning to mysterious islands where science blurs with the supernatural

Modernity’s Spell

Why debunking mesmerism only made it stronger