The Billionaire's Curse (September 1999)
Jack Beatty reviews Michael Lewis's The New New Thing—a profile of Jim Clark, the malcontented founder of Netscape and Silicon Graphics. By Jack Beatty

Sex and the Social Critic (August 1999)
Jack Beatty on Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut—and what the film's detractors failed to see. By Jack Beatty

Most Valuable Player (July 1999)
A look at Michael Jordan and the New Global Capitalism, a new book examining the economic impact of his Airness. By Jack Beatty

All the Presidents' Man (June 1999)
Jack Beatty reviews Name Dropping, the new book by John Kenneth Galbraith, and recalls the days when liberals were cool. Seriously. By Jack Beatty

Slaves' Wages (May 1999)
What price can be put on the exorbitant theft of labor that was American slavery? A look at a new work of history that suggests an answer. By Jack Beatty

Playing Politics With the Planet (April 1999)
A forecast of the 2000 election predicts squalls and continued global warming. By Jack Beatty

How Big Business Got a Soul (March 1999)
Early in this century, advertising and public relations helped give corporate monoliths a new image, shaping public opinion in the process. A look at a new history of how it happened. By Jack Beatty

Against Inequality (April 1999)
A valiant proposal to give every American twenty-one-year-old the same chance to prosper (or fail).
by Jack Beatty

What Work Costs Us (February 1999)
Richard Sennett's The Corrosion of Character, a book that examines the demoralizing effects of the new "flexible" economy. By Jack Beatty

Downsizing Days Are Here Again (January 1999)
The return of big corporate layoffs—and what the government can do. By Jack Beatty

Unsparing Witness (December 1998)
Most of us know that transgressions like Thomas Jefferson's were common. But few are aware that the topic of sex and slavery was treated openly and unflinchingly in the nineteenth century by an Englishwoman named Harriet Martineau. By Jack Beatty

Newt's Last Stand (November 1998)
Christopher Caldwell, the author of last June's "The Southern Captivity of the GOP," on why Newt Gingrich couldn't save his party from its paralysis. Plus, Jack Beatty offers "A Modest Proposal" to Republicans in search of a unifying issue. By Jack Beatty

The Last Refuge of the American Bigot (October 1998)
The murder in Wyoming and the search for the roots of anti-gay violence. By Jack Beatty

The Dissipation of Decency (August 1998)
The real political scandal these days is the abandonment of those without health insurance. By Jack Beatty

America, Inc. (July 1998)
Gain, the new novel by Richard Powers, makes the corporation the shaping force of American history. By Jack Beatty

Do the Right Thing (June 1998)
Think globally, act ethically.
by Jack Beatty

The Graveyard of the American Dream (May 1998)
What's behind California's decline, and what's at stake for the rest of the country. By Jack Beatty

Games of Monopoly (April 1998)
A new biography of John D. Rockefeller reminds us that capitalism, like history, repeats itself. By Jack Beatty

The Price of Longevity (March 1998)
An examination of the price of long life. By Jack Beatty

The King of Drudge (February 1998)
A look at a new biography of the man behind the assembly line—whose ideas need to be acknowledged and abandoned. By Jack Beatty

Color Us Green (January 1998)
A heretical new approach to economics puts ecology first—and may change the way we think about growth. By Jack Beatty

The Deep Slumber of Decided Opinion (December 1997)
Those who hail the virtues of trade without limits are this era's reactionaries. By Jack Beatty

A Barbarous Frenzy (November 1997)
A review of The Rape of Nanking, a new book documenting China's "forgotten Holocaust." By Jack Beatty

Let Them Eat Empathy (October 1997)
The era of big government has given way to the era of sharing leftovers. By Jack Beatty

Down With Majority Rule (September 1997)
Imagine an America where the majority does not rule. That may be what's needed to resuscitate our political system. By Jack Beatty

Talkin' About a Coalition (August 1997)
Is there a new Democratic majority in the making? Perhaps, but what will it stand for?

Nasty NAFTA (July 1997)
It's time for Congress to rein in NAFTA. By Jack Beatty

The Full-Court Press of Reason (April 1997)
On newspapers and gut reactions. By Jack Beatty

They Both Do It (March 1997)
When it comes to campaign finance, there's just not much difference between Republicans and Democrats. By Jack Beatty

"Hunting, Hunting, Hunting" (February 1997)
A hefty, riveting profile of David Lean, one of this century's great filmmakers. By Jack Beatty

Flight or Fight (January 1997)
Wealthy Americans are evading taxes in unprecedented numbers, and the result is class warfare (fought by the rich, not the poor. By Jack Beatty

Victories without Victors (December 1996)
At the end of a century of liberal triumphs, nobody wants to take the credit. A musing on the curious transformation of the term "liberal" (from a description to an accusation. By Jack Beatty