On the Modern Project

The Analog City and the Digital City

How online life breaks the old political order

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

Why Do We Think We Are Disenchanted?

Debating The Myth of Disenchantment by Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm

Disenchantment, Actually

Modern disenchantment may be a myth, but it is still the water in which we swim.

Fantasy and the Buffered Self

The genre offers re-enchantment without risk.

Disenchantment and Its Discontents

Why Catholics need not choose between science and wonder

From: Science, Technology, and Religion

Psychology’s Magician

The life and career of Carl Jung, mystic scientist of the mind

Disenchanting Determinism

Is human life less meaningful the more its mechanisms are known?