FRDH Podcast with Michael Goldfarb

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Host FRDH podcast. Radio essayist and documentarist for the BBC and NPR. Historian and author of Ahmad's War, Ahmad's Peace and Emancipation.

Episode Date
Presidential Immunity 2024: the Founders vs Trump's Supreme Court
Apr 28, 2024
Israel, Iran, Gaza, Hamas: World War 3?
Apr 20, 2024
Why They Still Fight: Ukraine Year 3
Mar 31, 2024
Why Everything Matters: Fluke with Brian Klaas
Feb 10, 2024
2023s Disproportionate Wars: What Lindsey Hilsum Learned Covering Them
Dec 31, 2023
Britain 2023: How Has So Much Gone So Wrong?
Dec 08, 2023
60 Years On: Living Memories of President Kennedy’s Assassination
Nov 21, 2023
Israel Hamas 2023: Lebanon, Iran & the Region, What Next?
Nov 02, 2023
Israel Hamas 2023: Waiting for the Next Phase to Begin
Oct 17, 2023
How Do You Know for Sure? Conspiracy and the Media
Sep 27, 2023
Chilean Coup 1973: an Eyewitness's History
Sep 10, 2023
Christian Nationalism: Hypocrisy and Heresy in America Today
Sep 01, 2023
Saudi Arabia: Silent Kingdom Steps Center Stage
Aug 15, 2023
Odesa 2023: War, Identity and Poetry
Jul 29, 2023
History Repeats: First Time as Tragedy, Second Time It's Still Tragic
Jul 15, 2023
Tel Aviv Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrations: A Rough Draft in Sound
Jul 01, 2023
Democracy in Crisis: One Idea for Fixing It
Jun 04, 2023
China Today: One Leader, Many Chinas
May 15, 2023
25 Years Later: Mo Mowlam and the Price of Northern Ireland's Peace
Apr 09, 2023
One Iraqi’s War, Hopes and Ruins, A Sound History
Mar 17, 2023
Sir Lawrence Freedman on Two Wars, Two Anniversaries: Ukraine & Iraq
Mar 11, 2023
2023: Israel At the Authoritarian Crossroads
Mar 05, 2023
Cultural History: Greenwich Village 1944, Brando and Baldwin
Feb 18, 2023
NHS at 75: A Surgeon, Now A Patient's History
Jan 20, 2023
America Held Hostage: Week 1 of 2023
Jan 07, 2023
2022 Holiday Special: Jewish Ukrainian Music from Before Putin’s War
Dec 22, 2022
Bible Study for Atheists: The Midterms and the Renewed Search For a Strongman
Nov 13, 2022
FRDH In Ukraine: L'viv Diary
Oct 24, 2022
Autumn 2022 and Its Economic Crises: Local and Global
Oct 01, 2022
Gorbachev: Geopolitical Visionary, Domestic Political Failure
Sep 01, 2022
Bill Russell: Wasn't That a Time?
Aug 07, 2022
October 1973, Dawn of America's Reactionary Age
Jul 25, 2022
Inflation: Now and Then
Jul 01, 2022
The Queen and I: Jubilee Rough Draft
Jun 05, 2022
Ukraine: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History
May 24, 2022
FRDH on the BBC: Emancipation, Assimilation & Jewish Identity
May 16, 2022
Ukraine War: There Are No Simple Words, It's Time for Poets
Apr 13, 2022
What is the real Russia: Tolstoy or Putin? Culture or Cruelty?
Apr 04, 2022
An Odesa Story: A Tale From the Bloodlands’ Past
Mar 11, 2022
Putin: Waging 21st Century War for 19th Century Reasons
Mar 01, 2022
Ukraine-Russia, Riddle-Enigma: Draft History of A Crisis
Feb 17, 2022
Deja Vu: Bosnia & Ukraine, Europe & the US ... & Britain
Jan 26, 2022
Brian Klaas on Power and Why the Wrong People Keep Getting It
Jan 05, 2022
2021: A Personal First Rough Draft of History
Dec 30, 2021
Rediscovering America, One Library At A Time
Dec 10, 2021
Thanksgiving 400: Facts, Legends, Poetry
Nov 11, 2021
Bible Study for Atheists: Americans Are Selling Their Birthright
Oct 10, 2021
How 9/11 Changed Everything ... In Britain
Sep 07, 2021
Kabul's Fall: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History
Aug 21, 2021
Afghanistan: Then, Now ... How, Why?
Aug 17, 2021
How Podcasting Became a Cultural Phenomenon
Aug 11, 2021
Gavin Esler on How (and Why) Britain Will End
Jul 10, 2021
Midsummer Meditation: England, Then And Now
Jun 20, 2021
Bible Study for Atheists: Israel, Palestine & Mercy
May 21, 2021
Bible Study for Atheists: Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians
May 08, 2021
Britain's Tories: Corruption & the One-Party State
May 01, 2021
Three Women, the Vietnam War and the First Rough Draft of History
Apr 16, 2021
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 5, Vienna
Apr 01, 2021
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 4, Hamburg
Mar 31, 2021
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 3, Frankfurt
Mar 29, 2021
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 2, Berlin
Mar 28, 2021
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 1, Amsterdam
Mar 26, 2021
Seduced, Abandoned ... Redeemed? The Pope in Iraq
Mar 09, 2021
FRDH on the BBC: Rush Limbaugh, Voice of America's Calamity
Feb 18, 2021
21st Century Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know Is True?
Feb 09, 2021
Rules For Starting a Civil War
Feb 03, 2021
Trump's Capitol Building Riot: Insurrection, Coup d'Etat or Something Else?
Jan 09, 2021
Reality vs Twitter in the Year of the Pandemic with Robin Lustig
Dec 22, 2020
The Crown, Thatcher & Brexit: No, No, NO!
Dec 08, 2020
New York Stories: Leaving Home 1985
Nov 21, 2020
Election 2020: A Philadelphia Diary
Nov 11, 2020
Election 2020: Scranton Trump Feels the Love One Last Time
Nov 03, 2020
Election 2020 in Reading Pa.: PTSD and Organizing, not Mourning
Nov 02, 2020
All My Presidents (and one Prime Minister): Clinton and Bush
Oct 21, 2020
All My Presidents: Carter and Reagan
Oct 06, 2020
QAnon: Who's In Charge, Here?
Sep 20, 2020
All My Presidents: Eisenhower and Kennedy
Sep 08, 2020
Biden/Harris: the Pandemic Campaign and Postal Voting
Aug 15, 2020
100 Days Til the US Election: What Is The Reality?
Jul 25, 2020
A Summer Story: Bastille Day 1970
Jul 14, 2020
Mississippi 1995: A Conversation About Race
Jul 03, 2020
Post-Pandemic: Making an Economics of Belonging
Jun 28, 2020
Look What's Happening Out In The Streets: Now and Then
Jun 07, 2020
Post-Pandemic Lockdown: How Will We Travel?
May 24, 2020
Four Dead in Ohio
May 04, 2020
Pandemic Poetry: Rivers, Roads and Realms of Gold
May 02, 2020
The Most Frightening Pandemic Number of All
Apr 23, 2020
Parsing the Pandemic Numbers
Apr 05, 2020
Lambs and Mercy: Poems for a Worrying Time
Mar 21, 2020
Looking for Ghosts
Mar 15, 2020
Bible Study for Atheists: Solomon’s Wisdom & A Divided Society
Mar 08, 2020
Sanders ≠ Corbyn or Anyone Else, That May Be HIs Secret
Feb 14, 2020
The Paradox of Tolerance and the First Amendment
Jan 31, 2020
Suleimani Assassination pt 2: Iran's Vengeance? What Can It Realistically Do?
Jan 07, 2020
Suleimani Assassination: The View From the Real Battleground: Iraq
Jan 05, 2020
UK US Elections: What is the Center?
Dec 14, 2019
Bible Study for Atheists: Don the Revelator
Dec 06, 2019
FRDH on the BBC: HIgh Crimes and Misdemeanours
Nov 24, 2019
Tom Holland On Dominion: Christianity and the Western Mind
Nov 02, 2019
A Presidential Tweet>A Turkish Invasion = ISIS Reborn?
Oct 11, 2019
Trump/Johnson Let's Make a Deal
Sep 29, 2019
Brexit: A Judicious (not Judicial) Review
Sep 14, 2019
How Brexit Killed the Conservative Party
Sep 08, 2019
Brexit Britain Breaking Up? Are You Sure?
Aug 07, 2019
Trump, Pelosi, the Squad and a Great American Novel
Jul 21, 2019
Brexit and the British Ambassador
Jul 13, 2019
Iran War Fever: a 40-year History
May 18, 2019
Republic or Empire: Pax Americana?
May 02, 2019
Remembering the Forgotten: Gabriel Riesser
Apr 19, 2019
Brexit: a Ghost Story
Apr 02, 2019
The Very, Very First Rough Draft of HIstory: What Assyria Can Teach Us
Mar 14, 2019
America's Decades Long Incivil War
Mar 01, 2019
Venezuela & the US: Everything Must Change
Feb 03, 2019
The Brexit Vote: A Report from Very English Scene
Jan 17, 2019
The Many Meanings of Treason
Jan 03, 2019
The NHS at 70: Born From Crisis, Enduring Stil
Dec 05, 2018
Work: a Matter of Life and Death
Nov 19, 2018
The Midterms and the Democrats' Dilemma
Nov 09, 2018
Pipe Bombs and How Societies FallApart: A Talk with Author Aleksandar Hemon
Oct 24, 2018
FRDH on the BBC: Journey To Ashkenaz
Oct 22, 2018
The Democrats in the Midterms: with Brian Klaas
Oct 02, 2018
On Being Cut Off From History
Sep 26, 2018
50 Years After the Soviet Invasion: Czech Cinema Lives On
Aug 20, 2018
Ireland: Borders, Brexit & Omagh
Aug 13, 2018
Death, Taxes and Donald Trump
Jul 22, 2018
Civility And the Paradox of Tolerance
Jul 10, 2018
Reality in the age of trump
Jun 20, 2018
Bible Study for Atheists: Jewish Quarrels
Jun 09, 2018
Iran: Ignorance Is Not Bliss
May 25, 2018
Reality of Torture With No Euphemisms
May 11, 2018
Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary Meditation: What Would You Have Done?
Apr 18, 2018
King and Kennedy Assassinations: America's Repressed Trauma
Mar 29, 2018
Iraq War 15 Years On: What Might Have Been
Mar 15, 2018
Liberal, Conservative: Can We Decide What These Words Mean?
Feb 20, 2018
Remembrance, Ritual, the Sacred and Auschwitz
Jan 25, 2018
Year 1 Trump report: Crazy or a member of the Club?
Jan 16, 2018
1968>2018: 50 Years On Time to Change the Paradigm
Jan 08, 2018
America 2017: Magical Thinking vs Reality
Dec 29, 2017
Bosnia, Mladic: the Price of Justice
Nov 24, 2017
Bible Study for Atheists 3: Judging Roy Moore a Blasphemer
Nov 12, 2017
FRDH: No Place of Greater Safety
Oct 25, 2017
FRDH Bolshevik Revolution 100th Anniversary Thoughts
Oct 24, 2017
FRDH How Media Obscures Our Understanding of History
Oct 18, 2017
Catalonia, Kurdistan: What Is A Nation
Oct 11, 2017
FRDH Without Memory There is No History, Here’s why
Sep 28, 2017
FRDH Berkeley High Point Of The Revolution
Sep 19, 2017
Three Things I learned about America on Vacation
Sep 09, 2017
When Jews Met the Blues
Aug 21, 2017
Mind of the South
Aug 15, 2017
FRDH Crash Anniversary Thought: Work ≠ Employment:
Aug 08, 2017
Bible Study for Atheists: America, One Nation Under Whose God?
Jul 26, 2017
FRDH: Republican Party Is Now a Faction How it Happened
Jul 18, 2017
FRDHMosul: ISIS Defeated But Is It Victory?
Jul 10, 2017
July 4, 2017: Hanging Together or Separately
Jul 03, 2017
FRDH Six Day War 50th Anniversary Meditation
Jun 07, 2017
FRDH: Bible Study for Atheists
May 30, 2017
FRDH Episode 15: Trump's First Hundred Days: How to Survive the Next 100 and the next
Apr 29, 2017
FRDH Episode 14 Trump & Security: What's the Policy?
Apr 13, 2017
FRDH Episode 13 Brexit & Churchill & United States of Europe
Mar 29, 2017
FRDH Episode 12: episode 12: Statistics>Facts>News>Truth>History
Mar 13, 2017
FRDH Episode 11 Resistance Is Not Futile, But It Ain't Easy
Feb 28, 2017
FRDH Podcast Episode 10: PTSD, Donald Trump, and Civil War
Feb 15, 2017
FRDH Special Trump's Travel Ban
Feb 03, 2017
FRDH podcast Episode8: America, I Ain't Marchin Anymore
Jan 17, 2017
FRDH Special: How America Got This Way
Dec 16, 2016
FRDH Episode 6: Paradigm shift Today, A Parable From the Past to Help Understand
Nov 25, 2016
FRDH Ep5: Memo to President-elect, Mass Deportation, a History
Nov 16, 2016
FRDH Podcast Ep 4: Mind Of The South
Nov 10, 2016
FRDH Podcast Ep 3: Class Reclassified
Nov 01, 2016
FRDH Podcast ep2: You Say Want a Revolution! Are You Sure?
Sep 30, 2016
FRDH Podcast Ep 1: The First Rough Draft Mission Statement
Sep 20, 2016
Benedict Spinoza: God Intoxicated Man
Jul 03, 2016
Trump And The Politics Of Paranoia
Jun 20, 2016
British Jihad
Apr 16, 2016
Topeka Kansas 1993
Jun 20, 2015
Yellow Springs Ohio 1993
Jun 20, 2015
Whitman To Woodstock
Jun 01, 2015
Piano Tales: a social history of the Piano
Mar 11, 2015
FRDH podcast, Episode 7: King's College Choir
Dec 23, 2014
Charlottesville, Virginia 2017 > Natchez, Mississippi 1995
Nov 30, 2014
Clarksdale Mississippi 1995
Nov 26, 2014
FROM KABUL TO KENT, pt 2
Oct 21, 2014
FROM KABUL TO KENT pt 2
Oct 21, 2014
9/11 Live: On Air
Sep 10, 2014
FEDERALISM: A Political History
Sep 05, 2014
Autumn 1973 Ep 5: End of the Post-War Economy
Jun 04, 2014
Autumn 1973 Ep 4: Arab Oil Embargo
Jun 04, 2014
Episode 9 Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre
Jun 04, 2014
Autumn 1973 Ep 2: Yom Kippur War
Jun 04, 2014
Autumn 1973 Ep 1: Chilean Coup
Jun 04, 2014
Suicide Watch
May 11, 2014
WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 4 Germany
Apr 30, 2014
WHAT IS A NATION? pt3 Bosnia-Herzegovina
Apr 30, 2014
WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 2 Kurdistan
Apr 30, 2014
WHAT IS A NATION? pt 1 Northern Ireland
Apr 30, 2014
WHAT IS A NATION? pt 5 From the ashes of Empires
Mar 25, 2014
Faith Without God pt 2: Becoming Religions Anyway
Feb 19, 2014
Faith Without God, pt 1
Feb 19, 2014