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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

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29:51

Can Journalism Be Saved: A Conversation with Nicholas...

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2020/03/21

One of the seemingly consistent things about creative destruction, particularly as a result of technology, is that we have a short memory for what came before the change. We remember just immediately preceding a dramatic shift in some vital element of our lives, but we forget what came before. It has the patina of making us nostalgic for the remembered past, even though we forget the long history. This certainly seems to be true of journalism. We look at the landscape of what venture capitalist

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24:55

David Plouffe on Beating Donald Trump

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2020/03/19

Even if you are not a political junkie, even if you only pay attention occasionally, the one thing you should have learned is that campaigns matters. And while this is true at the most local level, it is true in bold relief in our national presidential campaigns. It seems that in the modern political era, presidential cycles each layer on new accessories to the campaign process. In 1960 it was the televised debate. In l964 it was an insurgent winning primaries and the nomination. In 1968, it was

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28:00

A Bank Behind Every Crime: Dark Towers: Deutsche...

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2020/03/09

Usually attributed to Balzac is the observation that behind every great fortune is a great crime. In this day and age, It might be paraphrased as that behind every great financial crime is a great bank. In the case of many such crimes in the 20th and 21st century lies Deutsche Bank. In its efforts to grow it did away with all traditional ideas of risk management. In its pursuit of fees and earnings, bank executives got into business with some of the world’s most shady and financially needy

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23:47

When Will The Boomers Leave the Stage?

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2020/03/03

We are living through what is perhaps the last hurrah of boomer leaders. It’s hard to believe that it was only 28 years ago that we elected, in Bill Clinton, the first of only three boomer presidents, after having eight presidents, from Ike to George H.W. Bush, who represented the Greatest Generation. Today we have a cadre of boomers, all septuagenarians, trying to make one last attempt in a world moving and changing faster than ever, trying to keep alive the aging boomer legacy. As they do, a whole

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28:04

Hong Kong on the Brink

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2020/02/26

Trade Wars, intellectual property, public health, the global economy and democracy vs. authoritarianism. All are major parts of our public dialogues and all pertain to the state of China today. No other nation on the planet presents such an enormous footprint of the future. Perhaps even more so than the US. That’s why the protests and events of the past year or so in Hong Kong are so important. Not just to the people of Hong Kong, but as a symbol of the face that China decides it’s comfortable

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29:53

You Say You Want A Revolution

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2020/02/25

We look at our political and cultural divide today and think that it can’t get much worse. What we forget is that it has been worse. Not just when policy matters were settled by a duel or literally pitted brother against brother, but even in the 1960s and 1970s when students where shot at Kent State. Law enforcement was murdered in politically motivated robberies, and even the bombing of the US Capitol was part of our contemporary political history and division. A powerful example of this period is

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18:36

Nicholas Kristoff & Sheryl WuDunn: Tightrope:...

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2020/02/13

Back in 1962, sociologist and political activist Michael Harrington published a book entitled The Other America. In it, he argued that a full twenty-five percent of Americans were living in poverty. The book had a profound impact on both Jack and Bobby Kennedy and some said it was responsible for Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty. Forty-one years later in 2003, John Edwards spoke of “two Americas.” A nation divided by race, and by poverty. And today, a full 58 years after Harrington’s look at poverty,

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24:08

Can We Distance Ourselves From the Sins of Our...

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2020/02/11

It’s hard to make the point in our 24/7 information-saturated culture, but all of us, politicians included, are a lot more than the worst or even the best thing that we have ever done. Couple that with the fact that times change so quickly, values change, norms change and what might have been acceptable in 1962 certainly would get you fired today. This is perhaps most true with respect to the subject of race, the singular stain of our founders that we have worked 240 + years to try and redress. The

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22:19

If You Spend Hours Watching Cable News, You Are Just...

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2020/02/06

Partly as a result of 24/7 cable news and its unending political coverage, politics today is simply another form of entertainment. A spectator sport at best. We know the names of all the players. Nate silver homogenizes sports and election statistics as if we all had political bookies. We’re angry and we want purity tests for our candidates. What we’ve lost sight of in all of this is what politics is actually for. It is, at its core, only about the wielding of power to accomplish something. Success

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27:44

How Can We Avoid A New Generation of Brett Kavanaughs...

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2020/01/31

When an event truly captivates the nation, it’s usually because it touches on something that we’re not very good at talking about. Such was the case with the Brett Kavanaugh hearing. Reactions to Christine Blasey Ford personified a complex contradiction in our society. While many, particularly some men, respected her appearance and professionalism, they were way too quick to identify with and accept Brett Kavanaugh’s college sexual entitlement as some kind of norm. In doing that one wonders what

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22:21

Australia's Climate Apocalypse: Up Close and Personal

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2020/01/29

By now, we’ve all seen the pictures and footage of Australia-on-fire. In many ways it’s equivalent to those Rover pictures of Mars. They make us sit up and take notice, but we have no real feel for what it’s like and how life can survive, or even if it can. For that we can only appreciate firsthand accounts of what may very well be the first great climate apocalypse of the 21st century. Some of you may have read Judith Crispin’s harrowing account of the fires in a recent story in WhoWhatWhy. Now

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29:31

Silicon Valley and the Quest for Immortality

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2020/01/28

The not so subtle joke has always been that the two things that are inevitable are death and taxes. And while efforts are always front and center to conquer disease and extend our life span, the inevitability of death has always loomed large. Even efforts to regenerate life and the fascination with cryogenics still acknowledged death. Now a whole new group of scientists are trying to defy the evolutionary idea of death. The funny thing is it’s not happening in the great halls of medicine. Not at NIH

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25:17

Saving America From Trump, and Democrats From Themselves

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2020/01/22

Last Sunday the venerable NY Times got it all wrong. They said, and I’m quoting, “On the Democratic side, an essential debate is underway between two visions that may define the future of the party and perhaps the nation.” Not so. The only thing that will really define the future of either party and of the nation is the defeat of Donald Trump. And anything that stops short of focusing on that and that alone is a failure of imagination. The times went on to say, and again I’m quoting, “with a crowded

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22:08

It's Ok To Compromise and Maybe Even to Sellout...

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2020/01/20

In our current political and social climate, when polarization is so extreme, when purity tests are often required by your tribe, the idea of compromise and what some call “selling out,” takes on added weight and significance. But because positions and even sometimes values are often so extreme does compromise and selling out even mean what it used to? And if not, can we actually square the circle of compromise, selling out and ethics. That's the question that Inge Hansen asks in The Ethical

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21:21

Human Nature Always Finds A Way

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2020/01/14

Most of you know the story of the scorpion and the frog and what it tells us about human nature. It’s no surprise than that our everyday encounters, at work, at home, and on the street are driven by our innate nature. Wouldn’t it be easier if there were a set of immutable laws by which to understand that nature? Law that really might have been helped that frog? These are the rules laid down by bestselling author Robert Greene. Greene, the author of The 48 Laws of Power and the Art of

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22:26

Can the Generational Divide Lead Us Out Of Division?

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2020/01/08

We see endlessly how we are siloed with respect to politics, race, and geography. Add to this the generational silos that we all seem to live in. Reams have been written about intergenerational conflict, particularly in the workplace. But might this be the one area where the imaginary lines of divisions can be crossed? Can the improvement of intergenerational relationships in the workplace be a kind of Rosetta Stone for better understanding of all the other issues that divide us? Issues that are fed

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21:33

Do You Need Further Reminders that This Is Not Your...

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2020/01/06

The Harvey Weinstein trial, which begins this week, while perhaps extreme in its nature, reminds us of the realities of today’s work place. Today it’s not enough to just stay on top of one's career and professional knowledge and development. There is also the changing dynamics and culture of the workplace itself. Multi-generational, multi-gender, multi-age, and the seemingly increased sensitivity and scrutiny. The irony is that it is this very diversity, that carries within it the seeds and the

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22:35

Why Most Health Care is Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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2019/12/30

Some of you may have seen the story that owning a dog gave you a 27% chance of living longer. Some of that was related to the exercise of walking the dog, some to the companionship, and the basic human-dog bond. But suppose the reality was much deeper than that. Suppose dogs could be diagnosticians and even healers and protect us from the onset of symptoms. They can and many already do. This is the world that Maria Goodavage, veteran journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Soldier Dogs,

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24:25

William Greider R.I.P.

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2019/12/27

William Greider always knew that the chickens would come home to roost. Over many conversations, since 1997, he seemed to know and report the truth of that old adage "that if things were going to stay the same, a lot of things had to change." My conversation with Greider in March of 2010. RIP William Greider

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23:27

Something to Think About As You Eat that Holiday...

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2019/12/24

It’s long been an adage that what we eat, defines who we are. That’s never been truer than in our polarized world today and beef and its mass production has long been at the center of this definition. From the mid 19th century, the history of beef parallels, and often reflects social, cultural and economic changes. From the great plains in the 1850s to the slaughterhouses of the midwest, to the first McDonalds in San Bernardino in 1940, “where’s the beef,” has often told us who we are. Joshua

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