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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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

We Live in a Golden Age of Ignorance: A conversation with Andy Borowitz

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Look at the British press most days, and you’ll find that the government and the royals are being skewered and made fun of. The Brits have a...

Friday, August 17, 2018

The Kids Are All Right

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Millions of words have been written about millennials and the Democratic Party. The debate about how left they are, how involved they are,...

Tuesday, August 7, 2018

The Mouth That Roared - How Rush Limbaugh Changed America

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It began as a crazy idea. DJs would get bored with music and start talking to the audience. They would take calls, tell stories, and even ta...

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Globalization and its Discontents

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Trump, Brexit, and the worldwide populist revolution are not causes, but symptoms. Symptoms of a wider systemic plague of fear of change, a...

Saturday, December 16, 2017

This Man Could Have Prevented 9/11

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Bill Binney was an NSA analyst whose work was so effective it was shut down. It threatened to derail the gravy train fueled by the kinds of...

Saturday, July 22, 2017

THE DARKENING WEB: The War for Cyberspace

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Companies being hacked. Nations and democracy being hacked. Privacy under siege. The internet was supposed to change the world, create more...

Monday, November 14, 2016

Anger, Violence, Dispair...The Worst Is Yet To Come

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Watching post-Election Day events has been like watching a car wreck. We know we shouldn’t look, but we can’t help but be curious. The key...

Monday, February 1, 2016

Why Congress needs creative destruction

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There must be a dozen books out right now talking about the disfunction in our politics. Every day pundits, commentators and journalists an...

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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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