Jeff Schechtman's "Talk Cocktail"

"To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures..." John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

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Sunday, July 26, 2020

Do We Have The Strength and Wisdom to BEGIN AGAIN?

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It’s rare that the laws of physics and our ideas of race and politics find common ground. Newton’s third law of motion says that for every...

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race

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It’s clear that like it or not, race will once again be the issue of our time. You’d think by now, we would at least the the language right...

Monday, July 30, 2018

Lazy Thinking, Intellectual Cowardice and Safe Spaces On Today's College Campus

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Not since the civil war have we been as tribal as a nation as we are today. What’s worse, is that today, through the power of modern commun...

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

When Good People Get Caught Up in Racial Cleansing

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It is the original sin of America. 240 years later the issue of race still animates a significant portion of political and social discourse...

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Race and Medicine

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Nothing in the medical world is the way it used to be. Change is everywhere. The economic pressures, the political pressures and the very ...

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

White Trash: A History

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While politicians often talk of all those things that unite us as Americans, there are equally powerful forces that divide us. At the cente...

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Carl Douglas talks OJ: Made in America

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If you've seen the ESPN Documentary OJ: Made in America , you know it's about a lot more than OJ Simpson, or the Brown Simpson-Gold...

Sunday, August 10, 2014

Can we ever achieve a shared truth about the legacy of slavery?

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When Barack Obama was elected President, we heard lots of loose talk about this being a post racial society. It was as if a magic pill had ...

Monday, May 20, 2013

Acting White

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Many of us would like to think we live in a post-racial society. And while we may be post-racial, when it comes simply to skin color, as th...

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Jeff Schechtman: Napa, California, United States; I grew up during the Kennedy Presidency. It was a time when the best and the brightest sat center stage in the nation's psyche. I've always remembered the story, that at an arts gala at the White House, Kennedy looked around the room and proclaimed it "the greatest gathering of talent since Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Without the benefit of such trappings, I've had the opportunity, for the past nineteen years, to have a seat at an international banquet of ideas and history. My radio program provided me a unique opportunity to "travel" around the world and speak to thousands of the most imaginative thinkers and leaders in the arenas of politics, religion, journalism, business, popular culture, academics, science, economics, history, and medicine. During these years, I have taken many people with me on this journey. It has been a momentous time. The trauma of politics, the onslaught of technology, the insights of science, and the changes in the human condition make this a period almost unequaled in history. I'm excited that technology has now made it possible for me to take more of you along with me on this journey.

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