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"

Sunday, February 28, 2016

He Used Journalism as a Way to Understand the World

It always amazing with famous people, particularly those that sit atop the world stage, to find out things, even after decades, that we didn...

Friday, February 26, 2016

A Look at America at its Best

Say the word immigration today, and the political implications are both ugly and controversial. On the plus side a survey out just this wee...

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Teens that Read....Imagine

While I have not seen the movie, I do know from talking to some teens that the new film Pride and Prejudice Zombies has actually inspired k...

Monday, February 22, 2016

Artist, Critic, Beauty and Truth

How many times have you gone to the movies, or to an art exhibit or read a book and not really felt that you’ve completed the experience un...

Friday, February 19, 2016

With every song in our pocket, why do we listen to the same stuff over and over and over again?

This year, in a very tired and traditional way, the Grammy’s focused on the world of Pop music. But the fact is, no matter how traditional ...

Thursday, February 18, 2016

The New World of Medical Tourism

We are all driving cars with parts made all other the world. Our phones, our appliances, our banking is either made, touched and/or conne...

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X

I suppose it's the historian's curse that sometimes the people they are writing about become such icons, that getting to the truth b...

Sunday, February 14, 2016

We had all been warned!

Millions of words have been written about Donald Trump. But one thing always seem to be certain with Trump. Unlike the warnings in the sec...

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Why we always fall for the con

Paper Moon, The Sting, American Hustle, The Grifters, House of Games, The Matchstick Men; just a few of the movies we love about con men an...

Monday, February 8, 2016

The Future We Want

Think about how much the world has changed in just the past 25 years and then think about how little our politics has changed. Not just tha...

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

The GOP end game

This year's GOP primary race, perhaps more than others, does not exist in a vacuum. When Barry Goldwater accepted the GOP nomination in ...

Monday, February 1, 2016

Why Congress needs creative destruction

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

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Why the GOP is only a local party now!

This is a political year like few others. The traditional laws of political gravity have so far, not seemed to apply. Part of it is due to...

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Caught Between Two Worlds

Two of the most powerful threads in American history are the immigrant experience and America at war and the impact that those wars have had...

Monday, January 25, 2016

The Woman Who Are Transforming the Arab World

Last month Saudi woman cast their votes for the first time in municipal elections in Riyadh. And while this is an incredibly positive devel...

Thursday, January 21, 2016

What does the GOP do now?

After its loss in the Presidential election of 2012 the Republican Party felt it needed to do its own after action report. In the end, it ...

Monday, January 18, 2016

Why Political Marriages Matter

What goes on inside of a marriage is always a mystery. With a political marriage, even more so. We all know the stories of the neighbors ...

With Each Fill-Up we Support Repression, Tyrants, War and Terrorism -- The Link Between Natural Resources and Violence

How many times have we heard the phrase, “Big Oil,” when sometimes what we really mean is authoritarian oil. There seems to be a direct and ...

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Why Place Matters

We live today in a world of instant communications. Our computers coupled with services like Skype, allow us to travel to anyplace on earth ...

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

The Brave New World of Health - It's not your father's healthcare

There is almost nothing that we do the way we might have done it just ten years ago. The way we book travel, get a car, find places to stay...

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About

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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