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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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13:42

Without The Rocket Girls, There Would Be No Hidden...

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2016/12/29

Long before NAPA's Hidden Figures of the 1960’s space program, there were the The Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars. When Sally Ride blasted off as the first American woman into space back in 1983, she may not have know it at the time, but she stood on the shoulders of dozens of woman who, beginning in the 1940's, helped America compete in the space race and the Cold War. Based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, these woman

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20:52

How Parents Must Raise A Generation That Will Save Us

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2016/12/28

Parenting has gone from something natural to something that has become a job with many specific rules, fears and requirements. In fact it’s both more than than and less than sum total of all those rules. It should be a partnership with our kids, a kind of collaboration that makes both parent and child stronger. That a large part of the approach of Dr. Ross Greene lays out in Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child. It’s an approach that will be critical as we rely

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28:30

Spy vs. Spy...Then and Now

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2016/12/19

Listening to our political discourse today, vis a vis Russia, it brings back powerful reminders of the Cold War. A time when spies and covert action existed in what Le Carre called “a moral twilight.” And yet when we think about people like Kim Philby or Alger Hiss or Aldrich Ames, is the way that they turned on their country any different than what we are seeing today? We look at one of these instructive Cold War stories, True Believer: Stalin's Last American Spywith best selling author, and award

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19:55

What We Can Learn from War, Peace and Conquest in the...

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2016/12/19

In these troubled and uncertain times, it seems that the only thing we can take comfort from is history. Civilizations, empires and nations come and go. But how it happens and why is where we find lessons that may comfort us and maybe save us. Few periods are as instructive as Pax Romana (Latin for "Roman peace.") It was the long period of relative peacefulness and minimal expansion by the Roman military force after the end of the Final War of the Roman Republic and before the beginning of the

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27:10

Understanding The Forces That Are Shaping the World

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2016/12/12

Just as the existential question of why individuals succeed and fail, vexes every aspect of both public policy and personal debate, so to with nations. History tells us of the rise and fall of nations. In so doing it gives us clues about economics, demographics, planning and even how the individual drive for success scales up to impact whole nations. But of course, like everything else, we seek clear and precise metrics to try and make business decisions, geopolitical policy decisions, and simply

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30:42

The Nordic Model and Why It Works

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2016/12/09

Whenever political discussion, particularly on the left, turns to what policies will really work to improve the lives of the middle class, invariably there is talk about the Scandinavian model. Countries like Norway, Denmark, Iceland Sweden and Finland are constantly in the top tier of education, abundance of jobs, healthcare and a social safety net that is woven in the nation's DNA. But this was not always so. Many of these countries had to work hard to achieve this and in some cases that did it

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22:59

We'll always have sex?

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2016/12/02

It seems as if creative destruction and technology are changing everything ...even sex. This may be problematic given the degree to which sex is connected to everything else; marketing, relationships, essentially all forms of human interaction. As Emily Witt says, “we organize our society around the way we define our sexual relationships.” The inflection point at which all these forces are coming together, is in part what Emily Witt writes about in her new book Future Sex: A New Kind of Free Love

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25:45

Imagine If Wonder Could Replace Fear

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2016/12/01

“Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed their most serious actions," Montaigne wrote. Freud regarded play as the means by which the child accomplishes his first great cultural and psychological achievements; through play he expresses himself. This is true, Freud thought, even for an infant whose play consists of nothing more than smiling at his mother, as she smiles at him. He noted how much and how well children express their thoughts and feelings through play. Why then should we

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23:05

In The Cloud, No One Can Hear You Think

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2016/11/29

Not a day goes by that you don’t pick up your smartphone to access a piece of information. Every dinner party or get together has the scene where everyone races to their phones to look up a fact or prove a point. It’s so easy….so easy in fact that we often think, certainly our kids think, that they don’t need a large basic body of knowledge. Why memorize anything when you can just look it up..it’s all there in the cloud...right? Well it is. But fundamental knowledge does matter. What we know, not

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28:29

Can Entrepreneurship Save the World?

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2016/11/28

A not terribly successful American President was right when he said that “the business of America is business.” In fact, today it would be safer to say that the business of the world is business. Whether through globalization, or just through the individual entrepreneurship of citizen in the developing world, business is the one force that seems to counter unrest, instability, joblessness, and even extremism. Wisdom and experience tells us we will not stop extremism in the Middle East, or other

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25:28

Some of Us Want To Go To Canada...Elon Musk Wants To...

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2016/11/28

Fifty four years ago JFK, at the height of the Cold War, set us on a path to the moon. Today, absent the Cold War and in a world where a new photo or dating app becomes a billion dollar effort, it’s hard to think in terms of such massive, global and societal undertaking. Yet one man does. Be it electric cars, solar powering the nation, or going to Mars, Elon Musk thinks differently than everyone else...but he does want all of us to join him in that effort. The Washington Post's Joel Achenbach has

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27:28

Why Presidential Appointees Matter

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2016/11/26

Back in 1992 the mantra of the Bill Clinton campaign was that “it's the economy stupid.” Surprising, since the majority of American campaigns for President have always been about the economy. However since the 1970’s that economy has been changing dramatically and rapidly. It was only as far back as the Nixon administration that we were still on the gold standard. Things like derivatives didn’t exist. Subprime lending, globalization of money and creative destruction in the economy had not yet set up

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26:57

Using Design Thinking for Life

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2016/11/22

Look around your home or office, or even your car. Everything there was designed. Albeit not always well. Sometimes with an eye towards function, sometimes looking at form and sometimes with thought into the human interface. Wouldn't it be great if everything was designed with equal parts engineering, aesthetics and a real understand of how human beings will interface with whatever it is? That methodology, that combination of humanity and art and engineering is what’s now called Design Thinking

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23:20

Why the Growing Gap Between Business and the Public...

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2016/11/17

Herbert Hoover said that “the business of America is business.” If he were around today, in the age of globalization, he might have referred to the business of the world. Yet as our current election shows, as the recent Brexit votes showed, the connection between people and business has never been more tattered and frayed. Globalization itself, disruption, dislocation, the obsession with short term profits and shareholder value, coupled with the free flow of goods and money and jobs around the

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27:00

Scenes from a McMarriage

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2016/11/16

Think about those things that are usually the most personal, the most intimate and complex. A few of them are what goes on inside a marriage, why and how people give away money (there is a reason many do it anonymously) and the degree to which the business of America is business. These are the elements that make up the story of Ray and Joan Kroc. A story that is part Edward Albee, part Fortune magazine and part political, in the sense that the personal is indeed political. Ray Kroc was the driving

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18:33

What We Can Learn From Looking At Economic Interests...

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2016/11/15

It’s always so interesting all the assumptions we make about history. They tell us something about the assumptions we might be making about our divide today. When we think about the Civil War era, for example, we think in clear lines...the North vs. the South. Yet in families, in communities and in the states themselves, many were conflicted. Then as now, there were personal and economic interests that crossed over both sides. Nowhere was this more the case than in the city of New York. While

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19:00

Why the Isis rhetoric to restore the Caliphate is...

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2016/11/07

It's hard to imagine today, but the East, what we refer to now as the Middle East, was once a pinnacle of civilization. Like all great civilizations, it struggled with conflict between personal values and its laws, about succession and tribalism and security. It evolved a form of rule in the Islamic world that lasted for almost 1300 years..by any account a pretty good run. Today that rule, what was once called the Caliphate, has been morphed into something far removed from it’s original

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26:29

Every Single Aspect of Today's Immigration Debate,...

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2016/11/02

We are a nation of immigrants. For 240 years we have opened our arms to those seeking to come to America and for many of those years New York has been ground zero. But the immigrant story, even in, or especially in New York, has not been one of ease. The process and pain of assimilation, the fear of the other, the competition for resources have always created wedges between immigrant groups and so called nativists. So why is it that these issues seem to repeat themselves over and over,

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26:41

Why aren't we having this conversation about Medicare...

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2016/10/31

Medicare has often been referred to as the third rail of American politics. Because it has become so woven into the fabric of American life, so necessary and vital for seniors, , both politicians and those that have legitimate interest in improving public policy, are afraid to touch it. It’s as if the admonition to "do no harm" is first and foremost about medicare. Yet it is a program that at fifty-one, is showing signs of old age. It’s solvency in question, its operational model, post

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14:36

What Can History Teach Us About Our Current Political...

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2016/10/28

How many times have we heard that this election is like no other? That this is an extinction level event, threatening the very fabric of the republic. And yet history tells us that we’ve survived far worse. Be it the civil war, McCarthyism, violent labor strife at the turn of the last century, political assassination and of course, the chaos of the 1960’s To try and put all of this in context, in the home stretch of this political season, I spoke with Julian Zelizer. He is a Professor of

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