John Waters defends the creation and consumption of obscene films, and recommends some of his personal favorites.

Contemporary art hates you, says the filmmaker, and in some cases—like a mold-infested blank canvas by Karin Sander—it could actually poison you.

The filmmaker was raised with "fascist-ly good taste"—which is probably why he rebelled. But he's thankful for this upbringing because "you can't have fun with bad taste unless you know […]

A conversation with the filmmaker.

You may hate contemporary art, but it hates you even more, says filmmaker and provocateur John Waters. The point of art is to "wreck whatever came before it," he believes. […]

Anti-masturbation crusader Christine O'Donnell beat establishment favorite Rep. Mike Castle last night in Deleware's GOP senate primary, with a helping hand from the Tea Party Express. O'Donnell first rose to […]

Daily Show host Jon Stewart is the most trusted man in America.  Or at least as Chris Smith writes in a cover story at this week's New York magazine, in […]

Britain now faces a ‘Winter of Discontent’, which is what many commentators claim will happen each winter, taking their cue from the winter of 1979, when the country ground to […]

Why the new dean, Nitin Nohria, needs to stay focused on the "people realities" of the job.

America will continue to be more creative and innovative than China (for the time being), because entrepreneurship requires a sense of individuality.

Business schools may not have been focused enough on teaching future leaders how to keep an eye on the downside in an interconnected world.

Companies today need to think about sustainability across a variety of dimensions, says Light: "It’s water. It’s natural resources of all kinds. It’s also in a world of change of […]

Surprisingly, business education is very much the same as it was 100 years ago, say the outgoing dean.

A conversation with the outgoing Dean of Harvard Business School

PopTech--an organization focused on promoting social innovation and the spread of problem-solving ideas--has announced its inaugural class of 20 Science Fellows.  The fellows are early to mid-career leaders in fields […]

A quick programming note: I'll be off on the Geosciences Fall Field Trip - this year down to the Smokies of southern Tennessee/western North Carolina/northern Georgia - so there won't […]

"The foods you eat often affect how your neurons behave and, subsequently, how you think and feel. From your brain's perspective, food is a drug." This is your brain on food.

MIT historian John Dower examines the history of American militarism through its justifications for military expenditure, namely that other cultures lack the capacity for Western logic.

"Collaboration yields so much of what is novel, useful, and beautiful that it's natural to try to understand it. Yet looking at achievement through relationships is a new, and even radical, idea."

"How do you get your hands on power? And how do you keep hold of it once you’ve got it?" The Economist says that management gurus are surprisingly disappointing on this subject.