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Talk Cocktail

Jeff Schechtman

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, newsmakers and opinion shapers, and sheds light on the issues of the day, from local stories to national and international headlines and ideas. jeffschechtman.substack.com

news & politics

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20:37

The Bronx is calling

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2014/07/07

Whether you grew up in a big city or a small town, if you moved away and then went back to visit, years later, everything had probably changed. It probably triggered a kind of nostalgia that both made everything old new again, and at the same time reminded us that often the best way to go home again, is really in our imagination. For Avery Corman, returning to the Bronx was not just an exercise in nostalgia, it was also a look at how the world and all of us have changed over the past half century

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21:48

The tangled roots of American independence

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2014/07/04

History is a funny thing. Time goes by, books are written and we think we know all there is to know about a particular time and place. Yet the complexity we sometimes feel about ourselves and about modern life, is no less true for history. The true interpretation of motives and events we thought we knew, is always evolving and surprising us. This it is certainly true with with respect to our own American revolution. As we try to understand other revolutions and the yearning for independence in

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24:59

Why we love our Vodka

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2014/07/03

We eat candy bars, because it’s a tastier sugar delivery system than just eating sugar granules. Some smoke cigarettes, because it was once seen as a status form of nicotine delivery. Chewing tobacco just didn’t have same kind of image. In many respects, we drink vodka for the same reason. It’s a colorless, odorless, and some argue tasteless alcohol delivery system. Think of it as the alcohol equivalent of soy. It takes on the flavor of what’s added to it. Given this, why is it so popular and so

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22:37

The information age, long before the internet

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2014/07/01

A few days ago, The New York Times ran a story about how libraries in New York were helping to provide WiFi in parts of the city. Obviously the link between libraries and information is long standing. But imagine that in the 1930’s, long, long before the world wide wide was even a kernel in the mind of Tim Berners-Lee or others, the idea of interconnected information, of hyperlinks, of understanding the connections between information and ideas and then trying to pull them all together in a

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14:13

David Boies & Ted Olson and The Legal Case for...

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2014/06/30

Already 2014 has been a huge year in the freedom to marry movement. Advocates have won 16 out of 16 federal and state court decisions across the country. Polls show support at an all time high of 59%. But, although it may seem that way, this didn’t happen overnight. For over 30 years many have been in the trenches carrying the fight. People like Evan Wolfson, and Bruce Bawer and Jonathan Rauch and Andrew Sullivan provided much of the early intellectual heft of the movement. And then, when it

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26:29

Laurence Tribe on The Roberts Court and the Constitution

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2014/06/28

The Supreme Court today is more influential than ever. From Citizens United to the rulings regarding Obamacare and gay marriage, privacy and free speech, the current Court, under Chief Justice John Roberts, has has had profound influence. Yet it remains a mysterious institution. Like Churchill said of the former Soviet Union, it is often a riddle wrapped in an enigma, inside a mystery. The motivations of the nine men and women who serve for life are often obscure and the internal influences inside

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22:09

The shame of juvenile prison in America

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2014/06/27

The American rate of juvenile incarceration is seven times that of Great Britain, and 18 times that of France. It costs, on average, $88,000 a year to keep a young person locked up — far more than the U.S. spends per child, on education. To examine that system requires a two fold understanding. One of the criminal justice system that sends so many young people into these facilities and secondly the nature of the facilities themselves and the public policy decisions that have allowed them to

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21:33

Why how we approach cancer treatment matters.

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2014/06/26

How often have we witnessed tragic events and then, not too long thereafter, heard jokes about those events. What this teaches us is not disrespect, but it continually reminds us that humor is often the only way we can grasp and understand tragedy. That humor and tragedy are, even as Shakespeare understood, two sides of the very same coin. In the ability to find the absurdity in life’s misfortune, we are helped to see the world as it is, not through the lens of a “reality distortion field.”

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30:20

Why is anyone listening to Antonin Scalia?

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2014/06/25

Few phrases get used more today than “creative destruction.” What it really reflects though, is simply the way in which the world has changed. Our forefathers, along with the very founders of the country, couldn’t have imaged everyday things like air travel, the interstate highway system, telephones, automobiles or even indoor plumbing. Much less the internet, the splitting of the atom, or globalization. So how is it that members of the our third branch of government, the Supreme Court, actually

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33:30

What if you discovered your father was a notorious...

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2014/06/24

For centuries theologians have argued about how the sins of the father might fall upon their children. Freud talked about the need for a father's protection of his children. And Geoffrey and Tobias Wolff showed us how a deceptive father can impact his sons. As children have to cope today, with so many fathers in prison, for crimes all the way up to murder, it’s almost a public policy concern how this plays out. But what if a child didn’t know, at least not until his 40’s, that his father was an

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23:46

Ceasar Chavez and the nobility of poverty

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2014/06/18

One of the overwhelming ideas of the 20th Century has been the struggle of people throughout the world, to achieve a middle class life. The Horatio Alger mythology of pulling oneself up by their bootstraps has informed most of the American experience, but not necessarily for Cesar Chavez. When we think of Chavez, we think of farm workers, the fields of Delano, or the organization of the UFW. The grape boycott of the late 60’s, the secondary boycott, which would give the farm workers their greatest

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23:47

Why is Green Building Exploding?

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2014/06/17

When we think about building today, almost anywhere on the planet, be it a house or a gleaming glass, steel and concrete office building, we almost reflexively think about how the building was build and how green is that building? Market forces have made green building a premium to be desired and paid for. But this didn’t happen by magic. It happened primarily because one man saw the need to make this his life's work. He is David Gottfried. David Gottfried is the founder of the World Green

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19:47

THE American Spirit

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2014/06/16

Few products are more American than Bourbon. In fact some argue that the Kentucky spirit IS the American experience, distilled and sealed in a bottle. While the English have their Scotch, the Irish their Whisky, Latin America their rum, and Mexico it's cervezas, Kentucky Bourbon is our defining spirit. So what does this drink say about our character as a nation and how does that history apply to today's America? Dane Huckelbridge sought to find out and he shares it with us in Bourbon: A History of

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19:23

Is Hemp the coming disruptive Agricultural Revolution?

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2014/06/16

Imagine one of the strongest fibers on the planet, a potential energy sources, and something used by our founders, that is now illegal. That is the story of hemp. Sometime comic/journalist Doug Fine tells me how we all may be Hemp Bound: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Next Agricultural Revolution. My conversation with Doug Fine:

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23:32

Junipero Serra's mission and the Founding of California

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2014/06/15

If you are a Californian and especially if you went to school in California, its history and the remarkable life of Junipero Serra were an important part of that education. In the mid 1700’s Junipero Serra would leave Spain for the New World. The Catholic Church, Christianity and California would never be the same. Now in Journey to the Sun: Junipero Serra's Dream and the Founding of California, Gregory Orfalea gives us a fascinating narrative of the remarkable life of Junípero Serra. My

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18:20

Films Not to be MIssed

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2014/06/15

Think about the movies we remember. They are a little like old songs, or great books, or great meals. They are purveyors of a kind of double imagery, instantly making yesterdays events todays reality. But with movies there is something more, in the way they stay with us. The way the images play around in our heads and the memories, words and images become embodied in who we are. If you grew up watching and loving movies, like esteemed film critic Kenneth Turan, they take on an even more

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32:43

Are the Koch Brothers really as bad as they seem?

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2014/06/10

If I said we were going to talk about a story that involved grand homes, yachts, priceless painting, messy romances, private investigators and armored limousines, you probably wouldn’t think it was the story of a family and a group of men who have been painted as the greatest political villains of the 21st Century. In fact it is. It is the story of the Koch brothers. Fred and Bill and David and Charles and their father Fred, who was one of the founders of the John Birch Society. The question is

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16:25

Console Wars

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2014/06/10

Long before Xbox One and PlayStation 4 were battling it out on retail shelves, a small but nimble competitor very nearly unseated Nintendo as the top game maker of the 90’s. This history of that battle for video game market supremacy between Sega’s Genesis gaming system and Nintendo’s SNES console is the background of a new book by Blake Harris, Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation. It is also a history of how gaming become the huge business that it is today. My

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25:46

D Day and The Mantle of Command

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2014/06/06

We mark the the 70th anniversary of D Day. Not only one of the most significant events of the 20th Century, but one of the most significant decisions ever made by a President to send men into harms way. In a world in which decision making has become an expertise on to itself, when Presidential leadership is reexamined almost every day, it serves us well from both a historical and a contemporary perspective, to understand what really went into making that fateful decision, 70 years ago. How it

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29:43

The ongoing Dance of Anger

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2014/06/06

In the 1960’s anger was a powerful motivator in civic discourse, as we protested, marched, fought and found new ways to understand relationships. In 1976 Howard Beale told us we had to get up, and get angry! in 1985, Dr. Harriet Lerner explained how anger was a signal, an early warning system about issues in our relationships, among woman, and arguably writ large. Today, anger is even more complex. Anger globally, domestically and still, anger intimately. As such, the solutions are also more

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