In this episode of Chasing the Insights, I talk to author and critical thinker Jeffrey Scheuer. Jeff talks to us about critical thinking as entrepreneurs. Jeff Scheuer is the author of two books on media and politics and more recently Inside the Liberal Arts: Critical Thinking and Citizenship. It deals with what the liberal arts are, and why we need them for democracy. His first book, The Sound Bite Society (1999) was named a Choice “Outstanding Academic Title.” He is also the author of The Big Picture: Why Democracies Need Journalistic Excellence (2007). Scheuer has published essays, articles, reviews and commentary in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and some two dozen other daily newspapers, and has also published in Dissent, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, Gettysburg Review, Potomac Review, Wilson Quarterly, Nieman Reports, Philosophy Now, Private Pilot, and elsewhere. Scheuer is also an amateur photographer, a private pilot with seaplane and tail-dragger ratings, and an antiquarian book collector (see: “The Conscience of a Collector.”) He lives in pre-Civil War houses that he renovated in New York and West Tisbury, MA.