# Pioneers

Pioneers: long-form interviews with trailblazing writers, theologians, philosophers, historians, technologists, and entrepreneurs charting today’s frontiers.

## Pioneers

Pioneers

We live in an age of ‘peak cringe,’ not because we are too earnest, but because we are ashamed of earnestness itself. People are drowning in cynicism, told daily that civilization is doomed. But something is stirring. A new generation is rediscovering what William James called “the strenuous mood”: the deep human need to struggle for something greater than comfort and safety.

The frontier never closed. It expanded: beyond Earth into the cosmos, beyond biology into transformation, beyond death into resurrection. *Pioneers* sits down with the scientists, engineers, philosophers, and theologians exploring the frontiers of what humanity can become, and asks not just what they're building, but why.

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