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FRDH Podcast with Michael Goldfarb — 237 episodes

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1

How America Looks From the Other Side of the World: with Nick Bryant

2

Jan Morris, Traveler, Author, Enigma: A Conversation With Biographer Sara Wheeler

3

Iran: Why now? What Next? A Diplomat's Long View

4

Iran, US, Israel & Lebanon: a Conversation with Kim Ghattas

5

FRDH on the BBC: Taxi Driver at 50, New York Then and Now

6

Syria Today, Unreported Crisis Brewing

7

RISK ANALYSIS 2026: VENEZUELA IS JUST THE BEGINNING

8

DAYTON AGREEMENT @30: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA FOR UKRAINE

9

Britain 2025: Malaise and Unfocused Discontent

10

Northern Ireland Post-Conflict Briefing with Blue Lights' Creator Declan Lawn

11

Shock Troops of Fascism: Lost Boys of the Manosphere

12

BRIAN KLAAS ON HOW AMERICA WILL MAKE IT TO THE MIDTERMS

13

Lessons from Ancient Greece for the new Sparta: Israel

14

Charlie Kirk's Murder: A Frontline Report From Utah

15

Washington DC, August 2025, Fear and Loathing and Worse

16

Ray Suarez on Snatch Squads, Men In Masks & Trump's War on America's Latinos

17

SCOTUS & Snatch-Squads: Is This the End of the 14th Amendment?

18

US/Israel vs Iran: Unknown Unknowns and Blowback

19

Authoritarian Democracy: Erdogan and the Turkish Paradigm

20

21st Century Trade Wars: Is There a Rhyme or a Reason?

21

The World Is On The Move: Migration By Land and Sea

22

America's Constitutional Crisis: A Lesson From Medieval English History

23

FRDH on the BBC, NATO: THEN, NOW, NOW WHAT?

24

China: What Now?

25

A Historical Era Without Precedent: The US - Russia Alliance

26

The American Crisis: Founders' Words 250

27

FRDH ON THE BBC: KADDISH, WHY WE PRAY FOR THE DEAD

28

Reborn From the Flames: Notre Dame Reopens

29

So Now What? Edward Luce on Trump MKII, the Revenge Tour

30

Pricing Political Risk: Trump and American Imperial Decline

31

ELECTION 2024: GEORGIA'S LONG HISTORY OF RIGGING ELECTIONS

32

Why Nasrallah’s Death Is Not the Beginning of the End of Hezbollah

33

Paris: Love, Loss, Language

34

October 7th, the Gaza War and the Absence of Truth

35

Iran and Israel: War or Retaliation?

36

Anti-Semitism Without Jews

37

The SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Decision and International Law

38

Elections 2024: France & Macron’s Big Gamble

39

Trials, Elections: A Week in Anglo-American Politics 2024

40

Presidential Immunity 2024: the Founders vs Trump's Supreme Court

41

Israel, Iran, Gaza, Hamas: World War 3?

42

Why They Still Fight: Ukraine Year 3

43

Why Everything Matters: Fluke with Brian Klaas

44

2023s Disproportionate Wars: What Lindsey Hilsum Learned Covering Them

45

Britain 2023: How Has So Much Gone So Wrong?

46

60 Years On: Living Memories of President Kennedy’s Assassination

47

Israel Hamas 2023: Lebanon, Iran & the Region, What Next?

48

Israel Hamas 2023: Waiting for the Next Phase to Begin

49

How Do You Know for Sure? Conspiracy and the Media

50

Chilean Coup 1973: an Eyewitness's History

51

Christian Nationalism: Hypocrisy and Heresy in America Today

52

Saudi Arabia: Silent Kingdom Steps Center Stage

53

Odesa 2023: War, Identity and Poetry

54

History Repeats: First Time as Tragedy, Second Time It's Still Tragic

55

Tel Aviv Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrations: A Rough Draft in Sound

56

Democracy in Crisis: One Idea for Fixing It

57

China Today: One Leader, Many Chinas

58

25 Years Later: Mo Mowlam and the Price of Northern Ireland's Peace

59

One Iraqi’s War, Hopes and Ruins, A Sound History

60

Sir Lawrence Freedman on Two Wars, Two Anniversaries: Ukraine & Iraq

61

2023: Israel At the Authoritarian Crossroads

62

Cultural History: Greenwich Village 1944, Brando and Baldwin

63

NHS at 75: A Surgeon, Now A Patient's History

64

America Held Hostage: Week 1 of 2023

65

2022 Holiday Special: Jewish Ukrainian Music from Before Putin’s War

66

Bible Study for Atheists: The Midterms and the Renewed Search For a Strongman

67

FRDH In Ukraine: L'viv Diary

68

Autumn 2022 and Its Economic Crises: Local and Global

69

Gorbachev: Geopolitical Visionary, Domestic Political Failure

70

Bill Russell: Wasn't That a Time?

71

October 1973, Dawn of America's Reactionary Age

72

Inflation: Now and Then

73

The Queen and I: Jubilee Rough Draft

74

Ukraine: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History

75

FRDH on the BBC: Emancipation, Assimilation & Jewish Identity

76

Ukraine War: There Are No Simple Words, It's Time for Poets

77

What is the real Russia: Tolstoy or Putin? Culture or Cruelty?

78

An Odesa Story: A Tale From the Bloodlands’ Past

79

Putin: Waging 21st Century War for 19th Century Reasons

80

Ukraine-Russia, Riddle-Enigma: Draft History of A Crisis

81

Deja Vu: Bosnia & Ukraine, Europe & the US ... & Britain

82

Brian Klaas on Power and Why the Wrong People Keep Getting It

83

2021: A Personal First Rough Draft of History

84

Rediscovering America, One Library At A Time

85

Thanksgiving 400: Facts, Legends, Poetry

86

Bible Study for Atheists: Americans Are Selling Their Birthright

87

How 9/11 Changed Everything ... In Britain

88

Kabul's Fall: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History

89

Afghanistan: Then, Now ... How, Why?

90

How Podcasting Became a Cultural Phenomenon

91

Gavin Esler on How (and Why) Britain Will End

92

Midsummer Meditation: England, Then And Now

93

Bible Study for Atheists: Israel, Palestine & Mercy

94

Bible Study for Atheists: Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians

95

Britain's Tories: Corruption & the One-Party State

96

Three Women, the Vietnam War and the First Rough Draft of History

97

Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 5, Vienna

98

Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 4, Hamburg

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Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 3, Frankfurt

100

Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 2, Berlin

101

Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 1, Amsterdam

102

Seduced, Abandoned ... Redeemed? The Pope in Iraq

103

FRDH on the BBC: Rush Limbaugh, Voice of America's Calamity

104

21st Century Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know Is True?

105

Rules For Starting a Civil War

106

Trump's Capitol Building Riot: Insurrection, Coup d'Etat or Something Else?

107

Reality vs Twitter in the Year of the Pandemic with Robin Lustig

108

The Crown, Thatcher & Brexit: No, No, NO!

109

New York Stories: Leaving Home 1985

110

Election 2020: A Philadelphia Diary

111

Election 2020: Scranton Trump Feels the Love One Last Time

112

Election 2020 in Reading Pa.: PTSD and Organizing, not Mourning

113

All My Presidents (and one Prime Minister): Clinton and Bush

114

All My Presidents: Carter and Reagan

115

QAnon: Who's In Charge, Here?

116

All My Presidents: Eisenhower and Kennedy

117

Biden/Harris: the Pandemic Campaign and Postal Voting

118

100 Days Til the US Election: What Is The Reality?

119

A Summer Story: Bastille Day 1970

120

Mississippi 1995: A Conversation About Race

121

Post-Pandemic: Making an Economics of Belonging

122

Look What's Happening Out In The Streets: Now and Then

123

Post-Pandemic Lockdown: How Will We Travel?

124

Four Dead in Ohio

125

Pandemic Poetry: Rivers, Roads and Realms of Gold

126

The Most Frightening Pandemic Number of All

127

Parsing the Pandemic Numbers

128

Lambs and Mercy: Poems for a Worrying Time

129

Looking for Ghosts

130

Bible Study for Atheists: Solomon’s Wisdom & A Divided Society

131

Sanders ≠ Corbyn or Anyone Else, That May Be HIs Secret

132

The Paradox of Tolerance and the First Amendment

133

Suleimani Assassination pt 2: Iran's Vengeance? What Can It Realistically Do?

134

Suleimani Assassination: The View From the Real Battleground: Iraq

135

UK US Elections: What is the Center?

136

Bible Study for Atheists: Don the Revelator

137

FRDH on the BBC: HIgh Crimes and Misdemeanours

138

Tom Holland On Dominion: Christianity and the Western Mind

139

A Presidential Tweet>A Turkish Invasion = ISIS Reborn?

140

Trump/Johnson Let's Make a Deal

141

Brexit: A Judicious (not Judicial) Review

142

How Brexit Killed the Conservative Party

143

Brexit Britain Breaking Up? Are You Sure?

144

Trump, Pelosi, the Squad and a Great American Novel

145

Brexit and the British Ambassador

146

Iran War Fever: a 40-year History

147

Republic or Empire: Pax Americana?

148

Remembering the Forgotten: Gabriel Riesser

149

Brexit: a Ghost Story

150

The Very, Very First Rough Draft of HIstory: What Assyria Can Teach Us

151

America's Decades Long Incivil War

152

Venezuela & the US: Everything Must Change

153

The Brexit Vote: A Report from Very English Scene

154

The Many Meanings of Treason

155

The NHS at 70: Born From Crisis, Enduring Stil

156

Work: a Matter of Life and Death

157

The Midterms and the Democrats' Dilemma

158

Pipe Bombs and How Societies FallApart: A Talk with Author Aleksandar Hemon

159

FRDH on the BBC: Journey To Ashkenaz

160

The Democrats in the Midterms: with Brian Klaas

161

On Being Cut Off From History

162

50 Years After the Soviet Invasion: Czech Cinema Lives On

163

Ireland: Borders, Brexit & Omagh

164

Death, Taxes and Donald Trump

165

Civility And the Paradox of Tolerance

166

Reality in the age of trump

167

Bible Study for Atheists: Jewish Quarrels

168

Iran: Ignorance Is Not Bliss

169

Reality of Torture With No Euphemisms

170

Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary Meditation: What Would You Have Done?

171

King and Kennedy Assassinations: America's Repressed Trauma

172

Iraq War 15 Years On: What Might Have Been

173

Liberal, Conservative: Can We Decide What These Words Mean?

174

Remembrance, Ritual, the Sacred and Auschwitz

175

Year 1 Trump report: Crazy or a member of the Club?

176

1968>2018: 50 Years On Time to Change the Paradigm

177

America 2017: Magical Thinking vs Reality

178

Bosnia, Mladic: the Price of Justice

179

Bible Study for Atheists 3: Judging Roy Moore a Blasphemer

180

FRDH: No Place of Greater Safety

181

FRDH Bolshevik Revolution 100th Anniversary Thoughts

182

FRDH How Media Obscures Our Understanding of History

183

Catalonia, Kurdistan: What Is A Nation

184

FRDH Without Memory There is No History, Here’s why

185

FRDH Berkeley High Point Of The Revolution

186

Three Things I learned about America on Vacation

187

When Jews Met the Blues

188

Mind of the South

189

FRDH Crash Anniversary Thought: Work ≠ Employment:

190

Bible Study for Atheists: America, One Nation Under Whose God?

191

FRDH: Republican Party Is Now a Faction How it Happened

192

FRDHMosul: ISIS Defeated But Is It Victory?

193

July 4, 2017: Hanging Together or Separately

194

FRDH Six Day War 50th Anniversary Meditation

195

FRDH: Bible Study for Atheists

196

FRDH Episode 15: Trump's First Hundred Days: How to Survive the Next 100 and the next

197

FRDH Episode 14 Trump & Security: What's the Policy?

198

FRDH Episode 13 Brexit & Churchill & United States of Europe

199

FRDH Episode 12: episode 12: Statistics>Facts>News>Truth>History

200

FRDH Episode 11 Resistance Is Not Futile, But It Ain't Easy

201

FRDH Podcast Episode 10: PTSD, Donald Trump, and Civil War

202

FRDH Special Trump's Travel Ban

203

FRDH podcast Episode8: America, I Ain't Marchin Anymore

204

FRDH Special: How America Got This Way

205

FRDH Episode 6: Paradigm shift Today, A Parable From the Past to Help Understand

206

FRDH Ep5: Memo to President-elect, Mass Deportation, a History

207

FRDH Podcast Ep 4: Mind Of The South

208

FRDH Podcast Ep 3: Class Reclassified

209

FRDH Podcast ep2: You Say Want a Revolution! Are You Sure?

210

FRDH Podcast Ep 1: The First Rough Draft Mission Statement

211

Benedict Spinoza: God Intoxicated Man

212

Trump And The Politics Of Paranoia

213

British Jihad

214

Topeka Kansas 1993

215

Yellow Springs Ohio 1993

216

Whitman To Woodstock

217

Piano Tales: a social history of the Piano

218

FRDH podcast, Episode 7: King's College Choir

219

Charlottesville, Virginia 2017 > Natchez, Mississippi 1995

220

Clarksdale Mississippi 1995

221

FROM KABUL TO KENT pt 2

222

FROM KABUL TO KENT, pt 2

223

9/11 Live: On Air

224

FEDERALISM: A Political History

225

Autumn 1973 Ep 5: End of the Post-War Economy

226

Autumn 1973 Ep 4: Arab Oil Embargo

227

Episode 9 Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre

228

Autumn 1973 Ep 2: Yom Kippur War

229

Autumn 1973 Ep 1: Chilean Coup

230

Suicide Watch

231

WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 4 Germany

232

WHAT IS A NATION? pt3 Bosnia-Herzegovina

233

WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 2 Kurdistan

234

WHAT IS A NATION? pt 1 Northern Ireland

235

WHAT IS A NATION? pt 5 From the ashes of Empires

236

Faith Without God pt 2: Becoming Religions Anyway

237

Faith Without God, pt 1