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, April 28, 2011

A World Where Girls Are Not for Sale

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At thirteen  Rachel Lloyd found herself caught up in a world of pain and abuse, and eventually ended up a victim of commercial sexual explo...
Monday, April 25, 2011

The Evolution of Political Order

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Why is it, that history always seems to repeat itself? While societies are varied and develop in many different ways, there indeed seems t...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Physics of the Future

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Most of us remember growing up and hearing about a world of flying cars, domed living, wrist radios and robots that would take care of our e...
Friday, April 22, 2011

Green: Then & Now

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We are reminded on this Earth Day that few issues we face are as pressing and our changing environment and our sources and uses of energy. B...
Thursday, April 21, 2011

LA & SF in the 1930s

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Maybe it says something about the state of urban history today, but to better understand the history and culture of our two great Californ...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Explaining the Congo

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The events that have been happening in the Congo are truly one of the worlds great tragedies, yet we pay little attention to what's goin...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Pakistan: A Hard Country

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While we continue to be at war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, it is arguably Pakistan that will shape the future of US success or failure i...
Monday, April 18, 2011

A Hole At the Bottom of the Sea

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The problems faced by the Fukashima reactor and the explosion last year of the Deep Water Horizon prove conclusively that industrial accide...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

The Bond

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Like so many other things in our society, our relationship to animals sends tenuous and very contradictory messages. On the one hand we spe...
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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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