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"

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Democracy Dies In The Chaos of Competing Truths: A Conversation with Robert M. Smith

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Survey after survey shows that trust in the news media is at an all time low. And it’s not just the left/right divide. A recent study by the...
Tuesday, August 24, 2021

America Is No Longer A Serious Nation: My conversation with Tom Nichols:

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Almost everywhere in the world, liberal democracy is, if not under siege, or at least being tested. Only in rare historical times have would...
Friday, August 20, 2021

Roger Bennett Teaches Us About Soccer AND About America

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From Alexis de Tocqueville, to Alexander Solzhenitsyn to John Lennon, it has often taken those born outside of America to help us understand...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Second American Revolution - Will it Ever Be Won?

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In the 1960s and early 1970s political and social battles were fought by people who were trying to reshape America. Sixty years later, we ar...
Thursday, August 5, 2021

The Ultimate Corporate Delusion - The Story of WeWork: A conversation with Maureen Farrell

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If someone pitched the story idea of a guy who was a former baby clothes salesman who then started a company that sublet co-working office s...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

Trump's Final Days: My conversation with Carol Leonnig

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If daily news reporting is the first draft of history, books that come out almost contemporaneously to events are I suppose the second draft...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

A Car for the Ages: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings - A Conversation with Earl Swift

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While everyone has their own personal list, we could all maybe agree on some of the most iconic cars ever made. The VW Beetle, the 1968 Ford...
Friday, July 23, 2021

Bill Gates Has Always Shown Us Who He Is: A Conversation with Tim Schwab

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Two years ago if you convened a focus group to give an opinion on Bill Gates and his foundation, the response would have been overwhelmingly...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz

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When Hal asked Astronaut David Bowman to “open the pod bay doors,” it was as if our most primal fear of machines came rushing headlong into ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

How We Got To Globalization Today: A Conversation with Jeffrey Garten

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In the period immediately following WWII, the United States dominated the global economy. We had won the war, and the economic status that ...
Thursday, July 8, 2021

A Constitution of Knowledge: A Conversation with Jonathan Rauch

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Some days it seems that everything we’ve taken for granted with respect to the functioning of America and American democracy is under siege....
Tuesday, July 6, 2021

We Are Our Information: A conversation with Caleb Scharf

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We are awash in data and information. So much so that we wonder if it has any meaning at all? But what if the very existence of the informa...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Amazon, Bezos and a Global Empire

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Back in 1953, it was reported that Charlie Wilson, then head of General Motors, said that what’s good for General Motors was good for Americ...
Monday, June 28, 2021

The New Addiction to Outrage: Our American Psychosis

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There once was a time when we were, if not united, at least we had a common set of cultural touchstones. Movies, TV, sports, even the three ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Reasons for Hope in Rural America: A Conversation with Gigi Georges

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In an effort to make urban American understand rural America, particularly since the 2016 election, books about rural America have become a...
Friday, June 18, 2021

A Conversation with Chris Matthews:

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I think we can all stipulate that we are at a precarious moment in the relatively short history of American democracy. Even among those not ...
Tuesday, June 8, 2021

The Secret Service and its Time of Reckoning: A conversation with Carol Leonnig

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Think of all the things you have believed in that have recently been shattered. That the government might protect us from a pandemic. That C...
Monday, June 7, 2021

What Happened In Wuhan? Why the Lab Leak Theory Has Gained Traction

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Fifteen months ago most of us knew very little about viruses. Today, spike proteins, mRNA, and monoclonal antibodies are household words.  P...
Friday, June 4, 2021

Campaigns Matter: A conversation with Edward-Isaac Dovere

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Ever since 1960, the campaign memoir has become almost a genre unto itself. Over the years many of these books have shaped our view of polit...
Saturday, May 29, 2021

With The American Experiment on the Precipice, It's Good To Know Our Shared Origin Story: A Conversation with Historian Patrick O'Donnell

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As divided as we are today about the state of our current politics and the debate about facts, it seems that at least we should be able to a...
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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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