Marc Jeannerod

The Ideas Factory

A backward look over some fifty years offers sufficient distance to evaluate the coherence of a scientific process...

Richard E. Tremblay

Youth Violence

Pierre-Jean Rémy

Villa Médicis

Jacques Andréani

The Trap Helsinki and the Fall of Communism

Giulia Sissa

Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World

This fascinating study of the “art of lovemaking” in Ancient Greece and Rome offers an essential lesson for today

Michel Cassé

Dark Energy, Dark Matter

Édouard Brézin, Sébastien Balibar

Physics Tomorrow

The initiative of the Academy of Sciences, ten eminent French scientists share with us the extraordinary advances of contemporary physics.

Jacques Lecomte

Human Goodness

Contrary to the prevalent view, the author argues that human beings are good by nature— and recent studies support his thesis.