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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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30:01

New York as a metaphor for America in the 50's

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2013/10/31

- Mark Helprin, whose novels include Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War and Freddy and Fredericka, is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. Helprin holds degrees from Harvard College and Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and did postgraduate work at the University of Oxford. He served in the British Merchant Navy, the Israeli infantry, and the Israeli Air Force. In his latest novel, In Sunlight and in Shadow, he take us to New York in the post war years. Helprin, who

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18:05

Minerva Schools at KGI

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2013/10/30

Higher education, like so much else in education is beginning to change. While the American higher education system is the envy of the word, it still needs some modernization. Just like other form of education, it has remained pretty much the same throughout the 20th Century and into the 21st. Think about it. 100+ years of creative destruction has impacted virtually every aspect of society, but University education has not fully adapted. It has started to. First by addressing that we live in

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22:01

"A riddle wrapped in an enigma, inside of a mystery."

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2013/10/29

Back in the days of the former Soviet Union, we use to look to any public clue to try and understand what went on behind those Kremlin walls. It gave rise to a whole group of people who were referred to as Kremlinologist. Today, it seems we look at the Supreme Court in much the same way. At a time when the other branches of government talk about transparency and are exposed by leaks, when we often know too much about Members of Congress and the White House, the court often remains that enigma

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23:25

The panic, pleasure and history of CANDY, in one bite

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2013/10/26

This week marks the official start of candy season. The bags of Halloween candy, followed by chocolate turkeys, chocolate gifts, the Chanukah chocolate, endless Christmas candy, all portend to a season of secret consumption by adults, a watchful eyes on kids and endless candy guilt. Plus the requisites articles about how sugar is more addictive than cocaine and seemingly every disease studied by the CDC, amplified by sugar. In fact, the story of candy is a story of American industrialization,

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19:03

Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

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2013/10/25

At the Harvard Business School, which George W. Bush attended, there are many case studies about business partnerships. One of the recurring themes is that in tough times partnerships are easy. When everyone is struggling for a common goal, unity is always easier. But when a business starts to succeed, the partnership is always a lot tougher. Political partnerships are different, but still similar. There is no bottom line to worry about, but when one partner starts to succeed politically, ahead

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26:33

Occupy Wall Street...two years later

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2013/10/25

The "one percent," "occupy," "income inequality," are all ideas and phrases that have become part of our national political conversation and all born of the movement that started in Zuccotti Park, in lower Manhattan, two years ago. The degree to which politics, from President Obama to New York mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio are talking about these issues, should be a sign of success. But is it? Does this two year old movement feel like it has succeeded and if not, what’s left to

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23:12

Where They Were From

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2013/10/23

Usually when we all have conversations about race and poverty, it's usually in a very abstract way. We often loose sight of how these realities impact peoples lives. Not in a political or policy sense, but simply with respect to what life is like in the poor and rural parts of the American South. Few have a better ear or better understanding of this reality than National Book Award winner and Stegner Fellow Jesmyn Ward. Now she looks back at the loss of five men that she grew up with in her

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18:34

Palling around with Bill Ayers

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2013/10/22

During the government shut down, many commented that the radical elements of the Republican party were acting like terrorists. Even if we might have disagreed with their goals, the Tea Party ideas of direct action, grassroots organizing and commitment to their ideas of social change, were very reminiscent, in the minds of some, to the efforts of many groups in the 1960’s. However, most didn't like the analogy. In fact Sarah Palin commented that the Tea Party groups were specifically not like Bill

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36:04

League of Denial

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2013/10/19

We worry about too big to fail. Yet bank losses pale in comparison to the degree to which the National Football League, has been too big to tell the truth. Its denials have seemingly directly resulted in the death of NFL players. Even worse, it has created untold dangers to young kids playing football, because their parents believed the leagues denials about the risk of brain injury coming from concussion and repetitive head trauma. When seen in its totality, it’s hard to deny that

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20:11

Why Social Media is the norm and why mass media was...

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2013/10/18

We look at social media today, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, as if it’s something new that could revolutionize the world. In fact, the antecedents of social media define the very evolution of civilization. It is the mass media, newspapers, broadcasting and the one way dissemination of information, of the past two hundred years, that is the exception, not the rule. Today, the sum of all of our technology actually takes us back to our roots, as a more social and interconnected society. Tom Standage,

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23:13

Fear of pain and other stories

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2013/10/17

We all remember, or have learned about, FDR telling the nation that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” In fact, it along with a clip from The Kings Speech is being used in a commercial for a new technology that might help us overcome, what is considered everyone's worst fear, that of public speaking. Perhaps we remember Woody Allen fearing that the universe was expanding, and how that seemed like a good enough reason to skip school, in 50’s era Brooklyn. The country is on the brink

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16:03

It really does take a village

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2013/10/16

Edwidge Danticat's new novel, Claire of the Sea Light is set in a small seaside town in Haiti where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing. Claire's mother died in childbirth, and her father wonders if he should give away his young daughter to a local shopkeeper who could give Claire a better life. Before he can make his decision, she disappears. Every hour of every day, parents and children separate so that the child might have a better life. It’s not a concept that comes

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21:20

Having it all in 2013

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2013/10/16

In 1982, at the height of the feminist movement, Helen Gurley Brown, published a book entitled Having It All, love, success, sex and money. A popular TV movie of the time, was also entitled Having it All and had Dyan Cannon with a high powered job on both coasts. Oprah has said that women can have it all, but not all at once. And now 31 years after Helen Gurley Brown's book, the debate still rages on. Sheryl Sandberg has recently talked about the efforts of woman in the workplace, and now

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27:59

How we think we do it!

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2013/10/11

While talk of sex is all around us, the fact is that the origins of our reproductive lives are still a mystery. And while 50 years ago Masters and Johnson set out to try and find the science of sex, much has transpired since in our understanding of science, and evolutionary biology. In his new book How We Do It: The Evolution and Future of Human Reproduction Field Museum of Natural History curator Robert Martin draws on 40 years of research in biological anthropology to locate the roots of

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23:57

Proof that Hollywood or Broadway is really High...

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2013/10/11

Although the provenance is somewhat sketchy, it has often been said that show business is High School with money. The point being that the battles, the cliques, the backstabbing, and yes even the deal making that consume Hollywood, are often the same skill sets that are required for a successful High School career. Journalist Michael Sokolove has found another more important link: A group of High School students and a remarkable teacher who turns it all around and brings the positive things of

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20:34

The spy who was forced in from the cold

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2013/10/09

Spies and covert agents are, by their very nature required to live lives of secrecy. So when some spies, for whatever complicated reasons, become household names like Aldrich Ames, Kim Philby, or Robert Hanssen, it's a big deal. In 2003, the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, by columnist Robert Novak, brought an end of her CIA career. But it also brought all of us, in ways not seen since the Cold War, into better harmony with the symbiotic relationship that exists between politics,

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24:58

When Politics Worked

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2013/10/08

Our founding fathers created a system of government that respected opposing points of view and was designed to work even across differences. Throughout most of American history it has worked. One time it did not was in 1861, when Abraham Lincoln, said the following: “What is our present condition? We have just carried an election on principles fairly stated to the people. Now we are told in advance, the government shall be broken up, unless we surrender to those we have beaten, before we take the

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24:15

Vietnam 1963...Finding Madame Nhu

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2013/10/04

From the days of Caligula, right on through to the Clinton's, the role of First Ladies has always been complex, political and sometimes exotic. What’s interesting is how often we ignore the role of First Ladies, in nations other than our own. In fact, they have often played a key roles in determining US foreign policy. Perhaps nowhere has this been more true than in Vietnam in the early 1960's. There, Madame Nhu, the young and glamours First Lady of South Vietnam, would play a key role in one of

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26:40

Calcutta

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2013/10/04

Jane Jacobs, in writing about the rise and fall of great cities, talks about a quality even meaner than urban ugliness or disorder. That is, the idea of “pretend order,” achieved she says by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served. This real order “is what make cities flourish and diversity sprout and makes them strange and unpredictable.” This, as Jacobs explains, is not a drawback, it is the point of cites. A city that for a long time embodied this

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24:54

The Golden Age of Children's Programming

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2013/10/03

Last week, during the Emmys, we heard a lot of talk about this being a golden age of television. Certainly with shows like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Wire and Newsroom, who could argue? However for children's television, the golden age may very well have been 25 years ago. Then, Nickelodeon changed the landscape of kid’s programming. From the Adventures of Pete and Pete and Clarissa Explains it All to Ren and Stimpy, Nickelodeon became the go to channel for kids from early morning to Nick at Nite

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