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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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1,000 episodes

  1. One Win Is Not a Lasting Majority 40:30
  2. The Religious Movement That’s Done With Democracy 28:12
  3. Have We Lost Sight of What Politics Is For? 43:24
  4. The Birth of the Theranos/Holmes Scandal 26:40
  5. Anand Giridharadas talks to Me About What One Subway Death Reveals About a Country That Stopped Listening 43:45
  6. AI Is Making Work Sadder: And What Happens When Everyone Shares the Same Brain? 43:59
  7. The Gold Rush That Never Ended 32:37
  8. Why We Can’t Outrun Our Own History 35:33
  9. The Bond Market Always Gets the Final Vote 34:35
  10. Our Cosmic Quest Ends at the Server Farm 32:07
  11. A Timeline of Western Decline 57:33
  12. The inversion of AI’s discontent: Looking at the Myth of the Bad Data Center 32:21
  13. How Silicon Valley Buys Its Future: The Stanford Within Stanford 29:51
  14. The Cruelest Game 34:50
  15. The Age of AI Will Require Intuitive Leadership, Not More Data 33:45
  16. Does Fascism Have American Roots? 35:25
  17. Can Code Have a Conscience? 35:25
  18. Design as an Act of Inclusion 37:43
  19. The Real California That Gavin Newsom Will Have to Defend 40:26
  20. As America Becomes a Gerontocracy, Its Future Keeps Getting Delayed 44:09
  21. Progress Should Be Our Most Important Product 40:28
  22. Before the Trillions, There Was Once Joy in Silicon Valley 39:37
  23. The Water Knows Something 16:40
  24. AI May Be the Tool That Brings Government Back to Life? 35:14
  25. Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys, And The Music That Called Us West 47:16
  26. New York, the 1980s, and the World It Created 39:13
  27. Russia’s Descent Into Madness: Slowly, Then All at Once 34:00
  28. No Rules, No Order: The World on a Knife’s Edge 35:24
  29. The Democracy of Grief 32:02
  30. California's Generic Governor's Race and the End of Local Politics 32:59
  31. How Civilizations Lose the Signal 45:36
  32. Teaching Students to Navigate Algorithms and Deepfakes 38:48
  33. Why Do We Fear Waymos More Than We Fear Bad Drivers 33:17
  34. Betting on Reality 43:15
  35. Beyond Doomism: Why Climate Progress Is Happening Without the Panic 30:57
  36. Power Without Ideology Is Doomed 34:44
  37. L.A.’s Air Was Once A Punchline. It Could Be Again 41:36
  38. Iran, Hungary, Ukraine: The World Is Running on Outdated Legacy Software 49:49
  39. How Rolling Stone shaped a social revolution … at least for a while 42:01
  40. AI Is Humans, All the Way Down 46:11
  41. Social Media Had Gun-Level Immunity. That Just Ended 39:30
  42. Understanding Global Oil Shocks 31:06
  43. The Unexplained War: Stumbling Toward World War III 43:25
  44. The Chavez Myth Comes Apart 37:50
  45. We Cut Off Its Oil & Attacked Its Partners; China Seems Willing to Wait...Why? 31:10
  46. The Brief Life of Public Outrage: Why Corporate Scandals Matter—Until They Don't 44:52
  47. The Service Fee That Sparked a National Firestorm 19:58
  48. Hidden Cables—Global Risk 32:55
  49. The Iran Nobody in Washington Wanted to Listen To 42:40
  50. American Democracy Isn’t Broken… It Never Worked as Advertised 45:52