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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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26:26

Reasons for Hope in Rural America: A Conversation...

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2021/06/22

In an effort to make urban American understand rural America, particularly since the 2016 election, books about rural America have become almost a genre unto themselves. Works by J.D. Vance, Sarah Smarsh, Nancy Isenberg, James Fallows, Sara Kendzior and Nichols Kristoff, and others, have cast a class driven and almost apologetic eye on rural America. Certainly much is wrong there. In part as a result of years of external change and neglect at the hands of public policy makers. Places and towns

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23:17

A Conversation with Chris Matthews:

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2021/06/18

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 following it on an hour by hour basis via an addiction to cable news, people are anxious. So many, on both the left and the right, are using millions of words to comment on the moment. But perhaps the only way to really understand it is through the sharp lens of contemporary American political history. Particularly the years since the end of WWII. Our

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31:39

The Secret Service and its Time of Reckoning: A...

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2021/06/08

Think of all the things you have believed in that have recently been shattered. That the government might protect us from a pandemic. That Congress and our democracy were secure. That COVID came from a wet market in Wuhan, and that Bill Gates was a paragon of business and virtue. Now add to this growing list, the belief in quality and ethics of the United States Secret Service. With respect to the secret service, albeit some of our view comes from Hollywood. But surprise, not all secret

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41:54

What Happened In Wuhan? Why the Lab Leak Theory Has...

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2021/06/07

Fifteen months ago most of us knew very little about viruses. Today, spike proteins, mRNA, and monoclonal antibodies are household words. Perhaps it’s this new knowledge that has forced science and the media to confront the reality, long ignored or covered up, that the SARS-CoV-2 virus could have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). Our new knowledge and vocabulary are now liberating tools. Investigative science journalist Nicholas Wade helped to turn the tide. His massive,

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29:50

Campaigns Matter: A conversation with Edward-Isaac...

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2021/06/04

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 politics. In each of these stories men and even some women have competed for the presidency with the strongest of passion, with the proverbial fire in the belly. In many cases that ambition and their foibles have driven the country's narrative. As divided as we are as a nation, one thing that seems to be unique and universally embedded within our democracy, is

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22:42

With The American Experiment on the Precipice, It's...

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2021/05/29

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 agree about our shared history. And yet even that is debated today. When did America begin? Who gets credit, and how did it shape us? Patrick O’Donnell is one of our most distinguished military historians and he always trying to answer these questions. He is author of twelve books, including The Unknowns and Washington’s Immortals. and served as a combat

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20:41

Why New York is New York

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2021/05/24

Many of our great cities are known for one or two things. Detroit certainly for the auto industry, San Francisco for the 60s and Tech. Houston for the oil industry, and Los Angeles for Hollywood. New York in so many ways transcends that. Sure it’s the home of Wall Street and the capital of finance, but without putting down any other cities, New York stands alone as a pantheon to the very ideas of cities themselves and all that they represent. The great chronicler of cites Jane Jacobs said “that

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38:13

The Notorious Maxwells

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2021/05/16

We have a fascination with scoundrels. Especially if they are public figures. We love to build them up, to celebrate their success and then when they make mistakes, and disappoint our false expectations, we love to tear them down. It’s a cycle we see repeat itself over and over again. And this is not just an American phenomenon, it’s a global one The publisher Robert Maxwell is a keen example. Once celebrated for the publication of science knowledge around the world, for buying and rescuing

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23:03

We Need Uniters, Not Dividers: A Conversation with...

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2021/05/07

One year ago fear stalked the world. That fear created a common bond. We celebrated those on the front lines who walked into danger, we worried about our neighbors and felt kinship without those suffering halfway around the world. And yet, a year later we celebrate a return to normal, and yet our divisions have intensified. Normal is now represented by a mass shooting every week, and even wearing a mask in the name of health, safety and science divides us. Twenty years ago 9/11 united us for a

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29:57

How the Rich Really Live and Why We All Should Care

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2021/04/30

Almost as wide as the wealth gap in America is the gap in the way we view wealth. We look at it as a monolithic thing. Yet part of the country demonizes it, part covets it and part of the country manages. The same is true for kinds of wealth. Those that inherit it are different from those that win it, or those that start from nothing and create it for them and for others. All wealth is not the same The bitch goddess success, William James said, demands strange sacrifices from those that worship

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30:13

A Time When Oscar Winning Movies Really Mattered: The...

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2021/04/25

Great art, particularly movies at their best, reflect the times in which they were created. In 1968 political assination paralyzed the nation. In 1969 we were mired in Vietnam, New York City, was in decay and getting worse, The Stonewall Riots were energizing gay people, generational warfare, race riots were the norm, Woodstock reshaped and energized music and Richard Nixon was a year into his presidency. Is it any wonder that the most important film of that year would be a dark, bleak film that

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25:41

The Founding Mothers of NPR

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2021/04/21

Origin stories are usually part myth, part apocryphal and they often come to define the culture and sometimes the products of the companies themselves. What they always do is to reflect the dreams and perceptions of the founder. The business of news and media is no different. The founders of our great news brands all have a story to tell. Such a powerful origin story is the founding visions of National Public Radio and the extraordinary women who gave it life. These women didn't invent NPR,

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19:25

Toxic Masculinity In An Oil Boomtown

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2021/04/19

The nature of work in America has changed. Good paying jobs in the manufacturing sector have been diluted, the service sector has exploded, and the gig economy is not just about Uber and Postmates. Today, even hard, brutal work in the oil fields has been gigafide. For the men caught up in this change the price is high, but so are the lessons and yes, even the rewards. Michael Patrick F. Smith is a folk singer and playwright who made the dramatic move from Williamsburg, Brooklyn to the booming oil

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27:30

Elon Musk IS Leading Us Into The Future

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2021/04/07

Someone once said that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. In many ways that’s been the story of scientific progress. It seems there is always someone that leads us into the future. Someone whose vision and entrepreneurship and obsessive drive combine to turn the next big idea into the next big thing. This has been true from Franklin, to Edison, from Henry Ford to Thomas Watson, from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, and today Elon Musk is the inheritor of that mantel. Electric cars,

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23:52

Imagining the Next World War : 2034

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2021/04/02

There was once a time when we didn’t think a global pandemic was possible in the 21st century. The events of 9/11 took us by surprise as they did at Pearl Harbor and Midway. Yet all of these tragic events were imaginable and some aspects of them even made their way into fiction, long before they happened. They remind us that events like a pandemic or a world war are mostly at core, a failure of human imagination. Imagination which should be our first line of defense in preparing for our eventual

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26:34

Come Fly With Me: The World of The Pan Am Stewardess...

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2021/03/29

Those of you that are old enough, will remember when people got dressed up to fly. When having a meal onboard, especially on a transcontinental flight was like dining in a fine restaurant. When inflight service was more than peanuts and admonitions about the size of carry on bags. It was also a time when those that provided that inflight serve, were a different breed than Cassie Bowden in The Flight Attendant. It was an era when air travel was awash in glamor not the horrors of today. The flight

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36:50

The Royals Have Outlived Their Value: Gilded Lives at...

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2021/03/22

It’s been a while since the British monarchy was so front and center in our consciousness. The Crown, on Netflix, and Meghan and Harry have pulled back the curtain on the sometimes romantic notion of royalty. But more importantly, it’s also given us a look into what’s been called The Firm or The Institution, the British monarchy and its wider political economies of wealth and power. Because behind the scenes is simply a corporation, engaged in capital accumulation, profit extraction, labor

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26:30

Frida Kahlo and the Timelessness of Her Work and Her...

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2021/03/18

Racial identity, socialism, the role of art in society, the responsibilities of artists and the position of the artist in popular culture. These subjects which sound like they are taken from today's headlines are also part of the life of Frida Kahlo. They are all a part of new biography of Kahlo by Celia Stahr that looks at Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist. My conversation with Celia Stahr:

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21:27

Coffee, Globalization and and Why We Care About A...

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2021/03/11

While the world has changed in so many ways lately and turned most of our routines upside down, the one constant I suspect for many is their ritualistic morning coffee. For the moment it may not be in your favorite coffee shop, but nonetheless, the magic elixir helps start each day and power it along with consistency as the uncertain future unfolds. But how did Coffee of all things become not just our universal drug of choice, but an essential lubricant in connecting us to each other and to the

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22:29

Rethink Everything You Know About Policing

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2021/03/01

Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks was working at the Pentagon when she heard about the D.C. Metropolitan police corp program. Intrigued, much to the consternation of friends and family she joined up. Suddenly she had a badge, a gun, a uniform and a whole lot of academic ideas about cops, criminal justice, law enforcement and what it means to protect and to serve. Suddenly she was over and inside the blue wall. It was as if she was going into another country. She had to learn a new culture, a new

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