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Talk Cocktail

Jeff Schechtman talks with authors, journalists, and thought leaders.

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20 Years Ago Today, the Death of JFK, Jr., Extinguished the Last Flames of Camelot

20 Years Ago Today, the Death of JFK, Jr., Extinguished the Last Flames of Camelot

From the moment that Jackie Kennedy branded the Kennedy presidency as Camelot, in an interview with author and historian... Read more

17 Jul 2019

20mins

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How Women are Changing American Politics

How Women are Changing American Politics

Our founders devised a political system that was inherently difficult to change. They saw almost every aspect of the des... Read more

4 Sep 2019

22mins

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If Democracy Requires Critical Thinking, Are We Doomed?

If Democracy Requires Critical Thinking, Are We Doomed?

Ukraine just elected a comedian as its president. A reality TV character holds the most powerful office on the planet. T... Read more

29 Apr 2019

31mins

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Why Most Health Care is Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Why Most Health Care is Barking Up the Wrong Tree

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 t... Read more

30 Dec 2019

22mins

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Why Quantum Mechanics Matter and Why You Should Care: A Conversation with Sean Carroll

Why Quantum Mechanics Matter and Why You Should Care: A Conversation with Sean Carroll

The great screenwriter William Goldman once said of Hollywood that nobody knows anything. The physicist Richard Feynman ... Read more

13 Dec 2019

19mins

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Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy

Only Whistleblowers Can Save Democracy

Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Coleen Rowley, and the whistleblower who let us know about the Ukraine call, are just a... Read more

12 Nov 2019

24mins

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According to the World Health Organization, Superbugs are a Greater Health Threat Than Climate Change

According to the World Health Organization, Superbugs are a Greater Health Threat Than Climate Change

Sometimes the personal is professional. It’s not all that common when ones work and one's survival is linked so inexorab... Read more

22 Apr 2019

24mins

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

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

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 ... Read more

24 Dec 2019

23mins

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Brave, Not Perfect

Brave, Not Perfect

A couple of years ago, Senator Elizabeth Warren made headlines with the phrase “nevertheless she persisted.” Sheryl Sand... Read more

25 Mar 2019

17mins

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Can America's Military Ever Recover?

Can America's Military Ever Recover?

We all know that whether it’s a child’s toy or a powerful institution if something is built solid, misuse or the inflict... Read more

19 Dec 2019

25mins

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How Our Lives Are Being Run By Algorithms: From the 737 to Our Daily Commute

How Our Lives Are Being Run By Algorithms: From the 737 to Our Daily Commute

When Hal asked Astronaut David Bowman to “open the pod bay doors,” it was as if our most primal fear of machines came ru... Read more

21 Mar 2019

18mins

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William Greider R.I.P.

William Greider R.I.P.

William Greider always knew that the chickens would come home to roost. Over many conversations, since 1997, he seemed t... Read more

27 Dec 2019

24mins

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Kickstarting a Better World

Kickstarting a Better World

The great playwright Arthur Miller once wrote that too often “we know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”... Read more

26 Nov 2019

27mins

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What Happens to Ancestry Testing DNA?

What Happens to Ancestry Testing DNA?

It’s no surprise that many fear technology is out of control. AI, facial recognition and robotics are the stuff of scien... Read more

9 Dec 2019

18mins

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The GOP's Strategy To Embrace Racism

The GOP's Strategy To Embrace Racism

Once upon a time the South was a solid Democratic block of votes. Many of those segregationist senators that Joe Biden r... Read more

7 Aug 2019

27mins

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Who We Connect With Impacts Who We Become, and Who We Become Impacts Who We Connect With

Who We Connect With Impacts Who We Become, and Who We Become Impacts Who We Connect With

Several years ago, the tech company Cisco ran an ad campaign talking about the “human network.” It tried to humanize the... Read more

31 Mar 2019

18mins

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A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race

A 2019 Way To Look At and Talk To Kids About Race

It’s clear that like it or not, race will once again be the issue of our time. You’d think by now, we would at least the... Read more

24 Jul 2019

21mins

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Do You Need Further Reminders that This Is Not Your Father's Workplace

Do You Need Further Reminders that This Is Not Your Father's Workplace

The Harvey Weinstein trial, which begins this week, while perhaps extreme in its nature, reminds us of the realities of ... Read more

6 Jan 2020

21mins

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The Brave New World of Immunotherapy

The Brave New World of Immunotherapy

It’s hard to believe today, but leaching was once considered a legitimate and effective medical practice. Years from now... Read more

31 Mar 2019

24mins

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From Useful Idiot to Working Asset

From Useful Idiot to Working Asset

Perhaps our greatest spy novelist of the cold war, John le Carré, talks about what he sees as the appetite for superpowe... Read more

18 Dec 2019

30mins

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