Most of our decisions and opinions are not the consequence of mature reflection and a cool cost-benefit analysis.

One of Buddhism’s key insights is that much of the suffering in the world comes from people not seeing reality as it really is.

Ecologists point the finger at agriculture for its environmental impact, but soil conservation farming could have a massive role to play.

The notion that a group of 99 women and 1 man should be referred to as “ils” never sat well with me.

Proust was the first to describe how taste and memory intertwine. Pixar’s Ratatouille brought that revelation to life for a new generation.

As translators and language learners know, some verbs don’t translate cleanly from one language to another. One of the trickier culprits in French is permettre — a word that’s everywhere in French but doesn’t always map neatly onto English equivalents.

When former Minister of the Ecological Transition Nicolas Hulot presented his hydrogen roll-out plan for the energy transition on 1 June...