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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

news & politics

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19:49

Why Addiction is Not a Disease - Recovering from...

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2015/08/18

We have developed what amounts to an addiction/industrial complex. Each year billions are spent, in both public and private dollars, to treat, cure, and mitigate addiction. But is it working? Are today’s so called “best practices,” having measurable, metric driven results? If not, what might we be doing wrong? Dr. Marc Lewis believes that the current approach of treating addiction as a disease, lies at the heart of our repeated failures and frustrations. In The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction

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21:15

Life after Nuclear War

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2015/08/07

As we debate the ins and out of nuclear proliferation, on editorial pages and in the drawing rooms of Georgetown; in the halls of Congress and in the boiler room political operations of AIPAC, it's worth taking note, on this 70th anniversary of the dawn of the nuclear age, of the full impact of what we are actually talking about. As powerful as the bomb on Hiroshima was, it was the second bomb, three days later, on Nagasaki that was even more devastating. Today, in the shadow of talks about other

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25:27

From a Homeless Shelter to the Ivy League

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2015/08/04

As we debate immigration, we still always look favorably on the “Dreamers.” The young undocumented students thriving here in America. It’s easy to romanticize that experience and even draw conclusion from the success of individuals. The greater challenge is to look at those successes and see what real world lessons we might draw that can tell us more about success and failure and social mobility here in the U.S. Dan-el Padilla Peralta is perhaps the penultimate success story. Raised in New

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20:55

Eighty Years Ago, Paperback Books Were Considered...

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2015/07/31

Today when we think about the publishing industry, we usually think about the ways that it is changing to accommodate the digital world. E-books, E-readers, cloud storage and white backgrounds dominate the conversation. But believe it or not, there have been other times when the publishing industry has been rocked by fundamental change and when that change was met with fervent resistance. One of those times was eighty years ago when an executive name Allen Lane, had this idea for

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28:08

Is Water the Sine Qua Non of "red" and "blue" America?

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2015/07/30

I’m often the first to criticize the way in which we are too quick to put things in political terms. Too often the rush to label “red” or “blue” America gets us into trouble. But one aspect seems to hold. We are bluer politically as we get closer to water. Look at any map and coastal America seems to have a different mindset. Perhaps it is because water and proximity to water make a difference. That it impacts us in profound ways that stem from our evolutionary biology and extend to health,

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33:31

The New Science of Criminal Injustice

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2015/07/29

We are told, almost from childhood, that we have a legal system and a government of laws and not of men. Yet it is a system created by man and subject to the biases, frailties and inherent actions of human behavior. Yet from such a system we often dispense the most draconian of punishments in the name of all of us. At a time when even member of the Supreme Court of the United States talk of the Founders intent, and of originalism, a whole body of modern scientific evidence suggests that we need to

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25:32

Are you ever surprised that you are being lied to?

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2015/07/21

To about the same degree that Captain Renault was “shocked, just shocked” to find gambling going on Casablanca, that’s how shocked many of us are to find that politicians and business leaders lie to us. Whether it’s the latest candidate promising to make the world a better place, or Coca Cola offering the Real Thing, the idea of marketing and even misrepresentation has been around before spin doctors, and long before Don Draper. From the days on the Savanna when the caveman may have allowed his

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22:16

Big Science and The Launch of the Military Industrial...

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2015/07/16

We all remember Ben Franklin flying his kite, or Alexander Graham Bell calling for Watson, even Jonas Salk working quietly in his laboratory. Today science, or at least big science, is a global effort. It involves governments, private enterprise, universities and vast institutional support. Think about the International Space Station, the Large Hadron Collider, and even before all of that, the Manhattan Project and even the development of the Internet itself. All are part of what Pulitzer Prize

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15:02

Baseball's Endless Season - Is it too long?

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2015/07/14

As we hit the half way mark in the Baseball season, how many players are injured, how many are burnt out already? Are we creating a softer group of players or is 162 games in 180 days, just too many games? Washington Baseball writer Barry Svrluga explores this in The Grind: Inside Baseball's Endless Season. My conversation with Barry Svrluga:

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21:10

Primates of Park Avenue

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2015/07/10

We have always studied other cultures so that perhaps we could better understand our own. The realm of cultural anthropology has provided us keen insights into our evolutionary nature and why we do the strange things we do, as human beings. Wednesday Martin, has used the tools of cultural anthropology to zero in on one very narrow subgroup. The tiny percentage of the “One Percent” that reside in and around Park Avenue, on the Upper East Side of New York. Her book Primates of Park Avenue, has gotten

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22:33

How to Keep Listening When the World Wants a Fight

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2015/07/06

Listen to any of the Republican candidates and it’s clear that the culture war issues that have driven so much political debates over the past 50+ years, are still going on. Our political discourse is has polarized as ever. Even to the point where we’ve come to accept that you are never going to change anyones mind about social issues. So when we do talk, when we do try and debate, we simply talk past each other. It’s as if complicated personal issues are being discussed in a boiler factory. For

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30:22

Being Nixon: A Man Divided

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2015/06/27

Most of us know the legendary story of the group of blind men who touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk or the tail.. They then compare notes and learn that they are in complete disagreement about what they experienced This is the story of Richard Nixon. So much has been written about Nixon. Much of it has come in waves. There was the period after his resignation, of the bad Nixon. Then after his death, the

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25:02

Nixon's the One

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2015/06/27

Most of us know the legendary story of the group of blind men who touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each one feels a different part, but only one part, such as the side or the tusk or the tail.. They then compare notes and learn that they are in complete disagreement about what they experienced This is the story of Richard Nixon. So much has been written about Nixon. Much of it has come in waves. There was the period after his resignation, of the bad Nixon. Then after his death, the

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33:14

Charles and Ray Eames and the technology of timelessness

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2015/06/23

Long before Steve Jobs and Jony Ives bridged the divide between design and technology, before Target began selling Michael Graves tea kettles, Charles and Ray Eames made the connection between design, public perception and function. They created designs for furniture, architecture, toys and film and in so doing set the stage for much of the way we view our world today. They were visionaries, who were deeply grounded in the history, who understood that modern was also rooted in the

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24:51

Before Jobs, Musk, Hewlett & Packard, or...

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2015/06/19

We live today in what many consider the age of technology. Everyday there are new apps, new ways in which incumbency is disrupted. But very few of the creators or inventors of today, understand the long view, or the way they are changing the world. Steve Jobs understood. Elon Musk understands. Maybe even Mark Zuckerberg does. Part of that understanding come from education. From seeing the world beyond themselves and their work, and seeing their place in world. During another fertile period of

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18:47

A Russian Spy, A Double Agent, The FBI and Hooters...

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2015/06/17

Today boys want to grow up to be professional athletes, or tech billionaires. But there was time when being a secret agent seemed like just about the coolest thing to do. Whether it was the literary exploits of Bond or Bourne, or the real story Philby, or the moral twilight of le Carre, spycraft, particularly during the days of the Cold War, held a magical appeal. It certainly did for Naveed Jamali. He dreamt of being in Naval Intelligence and it inspired him to become a real life double agent,

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25:37

Never bet against Elon Musk's vision of the futrue

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2015/06/16

There is always someone that leads us into the future. Someone whose vision and entrepreneurship combine to make the next big idea, the next big thing. This has been true from Franklin, to Edison, from From Henry Ford to Thomas Watson, from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs and today Elon Musk may very well be the inheritor of that mantel. Electric cars, commercial space travel, high speed transportation and even new forms of education, are all part of the vision that Musk sees; and and his vision is on

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19:42

Would the real Alex Vause please stand up

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2015/06/12

Many of you, I’m sure, think you’d love the idea of seeing your life portrayed in movies or television. But imagine if you knew nothing about it. If one day, you saw an ad for a TV show, and you, or at least your life, was the central character. Would you be scared, shocked, angry, a little excited. Cleary Wolters experienced all of thee things. As she saw her life in prison portrayed as Alex Vaus in ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK. Originally portrayed as Nora Jansen in Piper Kerman’s book, her life

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23:36

How the law is shaping families and how new kinds of...

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2015/06/11

In the world of families, all eyes are on same sex marriage. In the Courts, in Statehouses, and in the political arena. But on the ground, in the households and families where people live, this is just one manifestation of the change in family structures and family relationships. As such, the world of law and particularly family law, has changed. The way in which these new, creative and ever changing familial bonds are structured, and the complex feedback loop between the legal and loving nature

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25:12

Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship

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2015/06/05

Today we have talking heads and pundits. But back in the second half of the 20th Century we had writers and public intellectuals, whose ideas, attitudes and personalities became a part of our public discourse. Two of those that were the touchstones of the times were William F.Buckley and Norman Mailer. Both wrote about history, about sex, about politics and sometimes all at once. They were the guests you wanted to have at any dinner party. They were also, each in his own way, bad boys of American

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