From Forbes, business schools are catching a lot of flak during this financial meltdown, but did the schools fail, or was it the fault of the firms that took these students? (and more) An interview with Rakesh Khurana, author of From Higher Aims to Hired Hands: The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession. Usury has been demonised throughout history, but Melinda Cooper and Angela Mitropoulos praise subprime debtors as "speculators" who are making their own exorbitant claims on the future. Bestselling business guru Jim Collins takes on the five roots of decline in his new book, How the Mighty Fall. A glimpse of Peter Drucker’s brain: An e-interview. We're Doomed: Even though our earth is a small hutch, people are reproducing like rabbits. From The Politico, for The Huffington Post, left is right; and here's a list of 50 politicos to watch. Send in the clown: Satire is Al Franken’s comparative advantage in his new job — he should exploit this blessing, not deny it. A review of Frederic Spotts' The Shameful Peace: How French Artists and Intellectuals Survived the Nazi Occupation (and more by Robert Paxton at Bookforum). The art of phwoar: Free websites like Pornhub mean that explicit sex films are only a click away, but are they any good?
