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"

Friday, April 30, 2010

The hell with governing....

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The 2012 presidential election is still 30 months away. But Republican challengers to the President already think that holding public office...

Thursday, April 29, 2010

Does Reality Matter?

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Some argue that reality television represents the perigee of western civilization. Yet for many it's a harmless guilty pleasure that a...

Monday, April 26, 2010

The Palestinian experience

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Sometimes it is through art and literature that we are better able to understand the complex issues of our time. Perhaps nowhere is this mor...

Friday, April 23, 2010

The Bridge

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Perhaps only now are we coming to realize that the election of Barack Obama was, to quote Joe Biden "a big F...ing deal." Not only...

Thursday, April 22, 2010

The opposite of sibling rivalry

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It was probably best that the still ongoing debate about healthcare not focus on the great advances in science and genetics that really are ...

American Taliban

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Are we so walled off that we look at personal exploration and the search for self as an act to be suspicious of? There was a time when stud...

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Ruth Reichl's amazing mom

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Former Gourmet Magazine editor and LA and NY Times Restaurant critic Ruth Reichl has spent time, in many of her memoirs, telling amusing an...

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Roots of Steel

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It's hard to imagine today that there was a time when the steel industry was booming. When steel workers could comfortably support a fa...

Monday, April 19, 2010

The Great American University

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Of all of the traditional institutions of America that have come under siege of late, perhaps none has held up better than the our great Ame...

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Organizing in the Google Era

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How much time do we all spend trying be organized? The onslaught of information, the avalanche of apps, all making us both smarter and more...

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tell Me A Story

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Few journalists have been as good at capturing the personalities and zeitgeist of their time as David Maraniss . A multiple Pulitzer Prize w...

Monday, April 12, 2010

Pulitzer acknowledges the history of the Arms Race

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As we enter into the first arms reduction treaty in almost twenty years, it's worth remembering the doomsday scenario that was the Cold ...

Friday, April 9, 2010

Is that all there is?

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Through science, religion and art we have, for centuries, tried to make sense of the universe. In modern times, we've believed that sci...

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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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