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"

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Friend or Foe?

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Facebook has become ubiquitous! It has just acquired its 500 millionth member, which represents about twenty-five percent of people, around...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The War Logs

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Earlier this week we saw the release of some 92,000 reports that make up a six year archive of classified military documents.  These documen...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Once bitten

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Imagine, a disease we've known how to prevent and cure for over a century that still infects five-hundred million people every year, kil...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Morning Miracle

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When we talk about newspapers today as entities, as brands, as institutions that need to change to reflect new economic and technological re...
Monday, July 19, 2010

The Last Gasp

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Beyond the debate about capital punishment, is the reality of the various methods used. From 1924 through 1999, for over 75 years, the gas ...

She is not one of us!

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The state of Arizona recently passed a law banning human/animal hybrids. This debate, like so much about the discussion of genetics today go...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Is altruism really possible?

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How do we reconcile the fundamental idea of evolution, survival of the fittest, with the idea of altruism? We know that throughout nature, ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Welcome to Utopia?

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For those of us who grew up in and around big cities, the idea of small town America is often alien and perplexing. Yet, if we scratch bene...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Steinbrenner

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George Steinbrenner redefined he fundamental relationship between an owner and his team. He was perhaps the best know owner in modern sport...

Ayelet Waldman's RED HOOK ROAD

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Five years ago Ayelet Waldman ignited a controversy when she wrote in an essay that she loved her husband more then her children. In her su...
Sunday, July 11, 2010

The Life and Crimes of George Carlin

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More often then angry words or spirited debate, comedy and irony are how we better understand our world and its absurdities. Sometimes it is...
Friday, July 9, 2010

America's greatest bridge & California's greatest historian

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There are certain iconic American symbols that could never be replicated today. Yet, they powerfully represent our sense of place, our sens...
Thursday, July 8, 2010

Declaration of American politics

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During the recent July 4th holiday, amidst the barbecues, mattress sales, and fireworks, there was quite a bit of highfalutin rhetoric about...
Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Marriages are like fingerprints

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Marriages are like fingerprints. No two are alike.  Even fewer compare to the unique relationship between Norman Mailer and his sixth and la...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Capitalism 4.0

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When the Chinese write the word crisis they combine two symbols; one stands for danger, the other opportunity. What if the recent and argua...
Tuesday, June 29, 2010

The Upside of Irrationality

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How many times have we made decisions just to keep our options open? How often have we acted irrationality, yet convinced ourselves that it...
Monday, June 28, 2010

The unspoken alliance

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As the World Cup pulls our attention to South Africa and its history, it's worth noting the once secret alliance between Israel's bo...

American Dreams: The US since 1945

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At the close of WWII America was a very different county. In a mere 65 years we have been transformed, perhaps even overtaken by events.Whet...
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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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