Society, Media and Culture

Art has a unique capacity to capture complexity, Lucile Schmid and Ladislav Miko tell Edouard Gaudot.

Activists and climate groups have carried out a series of non-violent but disruptive acts in cultural institutions. But what has driven them?

Sam Murray draws the contours of green cultural policymaking.

Men often hide behind indifference to protect their mental health from the world’s many problems, but this helps no one.

How can we appreciate the life experience of transgender people without stumbling into pathologisation, victimisation, or mystification?

What does political gaslighting entail, and how can societies defend themselves from the truth-bending rhetoric of narcissistic leaders?

Some residents are taking matters into their own hands with innovative urban projects centred around ecology.

Autonomy thrives with universal truths, not radical independence, Chantal Delsol tells Edouard Gaudot.

In the shadows of academia lurks an insidious counter-revolution. A graphic story by Lakshmi Bose.

Hope, divorced from reality, is a liability. Strategic pessimism can help us more in our current crises.