Frenchmen and Belgians who buy their meat in shops identified by a great gilded horse’s head would have been seriously upset last week to read an account which England’s Manchester Guardian succinctly ...

Writing my recent book on the self attuned me to how vastly different the human self is from other animal versions. A particular feature of the human self is that it knows and experiences life as ...

Joan Didion opens The White Album with the famous line “We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” This statement reflects her view that humans rely on narratives to make sense of life’s chaotic, ...