Hello! My name is Lauren Spohn. I’m a Rhodes Scholar, writer, and filmmaker pursuing a DPhil in Philosophical Theology at Oriel College, Oxford. Besides reading/writing/adventuring, I also enjoy running long distances and flying small planes.
Dinner with Dinosaurs
The New Atlantis
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?
The Myths of Meritocracy
The American Oxonian
When the ladder wobbles.
On Dentistry
Genealogies of Modernity
Tongues can lie about the nature of things. Can teeth?
Out of Shadows
The Catholic Herald
A night walk with saints.
Footgolf: The American Sport
The Harvard Crimson
See! Americans can play sports with our feet!
A World Lit up in Wonder
The Tablet
An Oxford conversion story.
Midnight in Lviv
Lviv Now
The prewar story of Ukraine’s American exiles.
Star Tours - The history and future of space tourism. (Symposeum)
The Outset Island Effect -The phenomenology of game music. (With a Terrible Fate)
Proficiency Test - When the alternator fails—6,000 feet above the desert floor. (Air Facts)
“Review - Mr Sainsbury’s Ground Cumin (100g)” - Long live the cheeky fix. (The Jericho Wawa, Hilary 2025)
Social Science and Other Miraculous Signs - Reading the stats of the times. (The Harvard Ichthus)
Top Gun vs James Bond on the Myths of Progress - When should heroes retire? (GenMod)
The Fun of It - Amelia Earhart lands at the US Capitol. (Ninety-Nines Magazine)
“Can Beauty Save the World?” Talk at St Patrick’s SoHo, London. (Apr 2024)
“Meet the Game Analysts." A conversation about philosophy and video games with the team of With a Terrible Fate. (Jan 2021)
Absolution (2022)
Writer/Director
A man sees his therapist for help with a difficult problem and leaves with mixed results.
A Wonders in the Dark Production
More projects on the way…