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Robert Kuttner

Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, as well as a distinguished senior fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a longtime columnist for Business Week and continues to write columns in The Boston Globe. He is the author of Obama's Challenge and other books.

Recent Articles

Unsparing Change

Robert KuttnerNov 26, 2001

Only Connect

Robert KuttnerNov 19, 2001

The New York Times Book (sic) Review for March 6, 1994 ran a feature piece reviewing a CD-ROM. "Microsoft Art Gallery," an interactive digitized catalog of Britain's National Gallery collection, won a rave. Just point and click, and you can pull up paintings by artist, period, or genre; you can also get spoken critical commentaries and painter biographies; you can zoom in or print out, all for $79.95. The Times's treatment of a CD-ROM as a virtual book has to be a kind of cultural watershed. The information revolution, decades after predictions of its imminence, has finally reached a popular critical mass.

Storylines: Get Me Rewrite

Robert KuttnerNov 19, 2001

A very long time ago, when I was the manager of a listener-supported radio station, we were planning our annual on-air fundraising drive. "The only thing we have to sell," one staffer said earnestly, "is our integrity." A wise guy replied, "What do you think we can get for it?" Thanks to the poisonous blend of talk shows, lecture fees, and an absence of conflict-of-interest standards, too many of today's celebrity journalists seem to have taken this ironic advice literally.

Revenue Sharing, Anyone?

Robert KuttnerNov 19, 2001

House and Senate leaders are now deadlocked between a Republican House stimulus bill that
is a shameless tax giveaway to large corporations and a Senate Democratic spending bill that is
well intended but too paltry.

The country is facing a serious recession as well as increased national security needs. The safety net is
frayed. Joblessness is rising, but unemployment insurance now covers fewer workers with stingier
benefits.

Comment: Brighter Prospects

Robert KuttnerNov 14, 2001

A decade ago, in year nine of the Reagan-Bush era, Paul Starr, Robert Reich and I founded a new liberal journal. The Prospect began as a quarterly, with 2,700 subscribers. Longtime readers may notice a few changes in this, our forty-seventh issue, the first to be published biweekly.

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