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FRDH Podcast with Michael Goldfarb — 243 episodes
Resisting Hamas: A Gazan Voice in the Wilderness
Writing History As Resistance and Defiance: Mosul Eye
We Are Not Machines: Fighting the AI Apocalypse
Robin Lustig’s Story: Fate, Family, and Survival
A Morbid Symptom of Our Time: Anti-Vax
Howard Jacobson: Shattered Illusions and Anti-Semitism post-October 7th
How America Looks From the Other Side of the World: with Nick Bryant
Jan Morris, Traveler, Author, Enigma: A Conversation With Biographer Sara Wheeler
Iran: Why now? What Next? A Diplomat's Long View
Iran, US, Israel & Lebanon: a Conversation with Kim Ghattas
FRDH on the BBC: Taxi Driver at 50, New York Then and Now
Syria Today, Unreported Crisis Brewing
RISK ANALYSIS 2026: VENEZUELA IS JUST THE BEGINNING
DAYTON AGREEMENT @30: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA FOR UKRAINE
Britain 2025: Malaise and Unfocused Discontent
Northern Ireland Post-Conflict Briefing with Blue Lights' Creator Declan Lawn
Shock Troops of Fascism: Lost Boys of the Manosphere
BRIAN KLAAS ON HOW AMERICA WILL MAKE IT TO THE MIDTERMS
Lessons from Ancient Greece for the new Sparta: Israel
Charlie Kirk's Murder: A Frontline Report From Utah
Washington DC, August 2025, Fear and Loathing and Worse
Ray Suarez on Snatch Squads, Men In Masks & Trump's War on America's Latinos
SCOTUS & Snatch-Squads: Is This the End of the 14th Amendment?
US/Israel vs Iran: Unknown Unknowns and Blowback
Authoritarian Democracy: Erdogan and the Turkish Paradigm
21st Century Trade Wars: Is There a Rhyme or a Reason?
The World Is On The Move: Migration By Land and Sea
America's Constitutional Crisis: A Lesson From Medieval English History
FRDH on the BBC, NATO: THEN, NOW, NOW WHAT?
China: What Now?
A Historical Era Without Precedent: The US - Russia Alliance
The American Crisis: Founders' Words 250
FRDH ON THE BBC: KADDISH, WHY WE PRAY FOR THE DEAD
Reborn From the Flames: Notre Dame Reopens
So Now What? Edward Luce on Trump MKII, the Revenge Tour
Pricing Political Risk: Trump and American Imperial Decline
ELECTION 2024: GEORGIA'S LONG HISTORY OF RIGGING ELECTIONS
Why Nasrallah’s Death Is Not the Beginning of the End of Hezbollah
Paris: Love, Loss, Language
October 7th, the Gaza War and the Absence of Truth
Iran and Israel: War or Retaliation?
Anti-Semitism Without Jews
The SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Decision and International Law
Elections 2024: France & Macron’s Big Gamble
Trials, Elections: A Week in Anglo-American Politics 2024
Presidential Immunity 2024: the Founders vs Trump's Supreme Court
Israel, Iran, Gaza, Hamas: World War 3?
Why They Still Fight: Ukraine Year 3
Why Everything Matters: Fluke with Brian Klaas
2023s Disproportionate Wars: What Lindsey Hilsum Learned Covering Them
Britain 2023: How Has So Much Gone So Wrong?
60 Years On: Living Memories of President Kennedy’s Assassination
Israel Hamas 2023: Lebanon, Iran & the Region, What Next?
Israel Hamas 2023: Waiting for the Next Phase to Begin
How Do You Know for Sure? Conspiracy and the Media
Chilean Coup 1973: an Eyewitness's History
Christian Nationalism: Hypocrisy and Heresy in America Today
Saudi Arabia: Silent Kingdom Steps Center Stage
Odesa 2023: War, Identity and Poetry
History Repeats: First Time as Tragedy, Second Time It's Still Tragic
Tel Aviv Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrations: A Rough Draft in Sound
Democracy in Crisis: One Idea for Fixing It
China Today: One Leader, Many Chinas
25 Years Later: Mo Mowlam and the Price of Northern Ireland's Peace
One Iraqi’s War, Hopes and Ruins, A Sound History
Sir Lawrence Freedman on Two Wars, Two Anniversaries: Ukraine & Iraq
2023: Israel At the Authoritarian Crossroads
Cultural History: Greenwich Village 1944, Brando and Baldwin
NHS at 75: A Surgeon, Now A Patient's History
America Held Hostage: Week 1 of 2023
2022 Holiday Special: Jewish Ukrainian Music from Before Putin’s War
Bible Study for Atheists: The Midterms and the Renewed Search For a Strongman
FRDH In Ukraine: L'viv Diary
Autumn 2022 and Its Economic Crises: Local and Global
Gorbachev: Geopolitical Visionary, Domestic Political Failure
Bill Russell: Wasn't That a Time?
October 1973, Dawn of America's Reactionary Age
Inflation: Now and Then
The Queen and I: Jubilee Rough Draft
Ukraine: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History
FRDH on the BBC: Emancipation, Assimilation & Jewish Identity
Ukraine War: There Are No Simple Words, It's Time for Poets
What is the real Russia: Tolstoy or Putin? Culture or Cruelty?
An Odesa Story: A Tale From the Bloodlands’ Past
Putin: Waging 21st Century War for 19th Century Reasons
Ukraine-Russia, Riddle-Enigma: Draft History of A Crisis
Deja Vu: Bosnia & Ukraine, Europe & the US ... & Britain
Brian Klaas on Power and Why the Wrong People Keep Getting It
2021: A Personal First Rough Draft of History
Rediscovering America, One Library At A Time
Thanksgiving 400: Facts, Legends, Poetry
Bible Study for Atheists: Americans Are Selling Their Birthright
How 9/11 Changed Everything ... In Britain
Kabul's Fall: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History
Afghanistan: Then, Now ... How, Why?
How Podcasting Became a Cultural Phenomenon
Gavin Esler on How (and Why) Britain Will End
Midsummer Meditation: England, Then And Now
Bible Study for Atheists: Israel, Palestine & Mercy
Bible Study for Atheists: Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians
Britain's Tories: Corruption & the One-Party State
Three Women, the Vietnam War and the First Rough Draft of History
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 5, Vienna
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 4, Hamburg
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 3, Frankfurt
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 2, Berlin
Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 1, Amsterdam
Seduced, Abandoned ... Redeemed? The Pope in Iraq
FRDH on the BBC: Rush Limbaugh, Voice of America's Calamity
21st Century Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know Is True?
Rules For Starting a Civil War
Trump's Capitol Building Riot: Insurrection, Coup d'Etat or Something Else?
Reality vs Twitter in the Year of the Pandemic with Robin Lustig
The Crown, Thatcher & Brexit: No, No, NO!
New York Stories: Leaving Home 1985
Election 2020: A Philadelphia Diary
Election 2020: Scranton Trump Feels the Love One Last Time
Election 2020 in Reading Pa.: PTSD and Organizing, not Mourning
All My Presidents (and one Prime Minister): Clinton and Bush
All My Presidents: Carter and Reagan
QAnon: Who's In Charge, Here?
All My Presidents: Eisenhower and Kennedy
Biden/Harris: the Pandemic Campaign and Postal Voting
100 Days Til the US Election: What Is The Reality?
A Summer Story: Bastille Day 1970
Mississippi 1995: A Conversation About Race
Post-Pandemic: Making an Economics of Belonging
Look What's Happening Out In The Streets: Now and Then
Post-Pandemic Lockdown: How Will We Travel?
Four Dead in Ohio
Pandemic Poetry: Rivers, Roads and Realms of Gold
The Most Frightening Pandemic Number of All
Parsing the Pandemic Numbers
Lambs and Mercy: Poems for a Worrying Time
Looking for Ghosts
Bible Study for Atheists: Solomon’s Wisdom & A Divided Society
Sanders ≠ Corbyn or Anyone Else, That May Be HIs Secret
The Paradox of Tolerance and the First Amendment
Suleimani Assassination pt 2: Iran's Vengeance? What Can It Realistically Do?
Suleimani Assassination: The View From the Real Battleground: Iraq
UK US Elections: What is the Center?
Bible Study for Atheists: Don the Revelator
FRDH on the BBC: HIgh Crimes and Misdemeanours
Tom Holland On Dominion: Christianity and the Western Mind
A Presidential Tweet>A Turkish Invasion = ISIS Reborn?
Trump/Johnson Let's Make a Deal
Brexit: A Judicious (not Judicial) Review
How Brexit Killed the Conservative Party
Brexit Britain Breaking Up? Are You Sure?
Trump, Pelosi, the Squad and a Great American Novel
Brexit and the British Ambassador
Iran War Fever: a 40-year History
Republic or Empire: Pax Americana?
Remembering the Forgotten: Gabriel Riesser
Brexit: a Ghost Story
The Very, Very First Rough Draft of HIstory: What Assyria Can Teach Us
America's Decades Long Incivil War
Venezuela & the US: Everything Must Change
The Brexit Vote: A Report from Very English Scene
The Many Meanings of Treason
The NHS at 70: Born From Crisis, Enduring Stil
Work: a Matter of Life and Death
The Midterms and the Democrats' Dilemma
Pipe Bombs and How Societies FallApart: A Talk with Author Aleksandar Hemon
FRDH on the BBC: Journey To Ashkenaz
The Democrats in the Midterms: with Brian Klaas
On Being Cut Off From History
50 Years After the Soviet Invasion: Czech Cinema Lives On
Ireland: Borders, Brexit & Omagh
Death, Taxes and Donald Trump
Civility And the Paradox of Tolerance
Reality in the age of trump
Bible Study for Atheists: Jewish Quarrels
Iran: Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Reality of Torture With No Euphemisms
Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary Meditation: What Would You Have Done?
King and Kennedy Assassinations: America's Repressed Trauma
Iraq War 15 Years On: What Might Have Been
Liberal, Conservative: Can We Decide What These Words Mean?
Remembrance, Ritual, the Sacred and Auschwitz
Year 1 Trump report: Crazy or a member of the Club?
1968>2018: 50 Years On Time to Change the Paradigm
America 2017: Magical Thinking vs Reality
Bosnia, Mladic: the Price of Justice
Bible Study for Atheists 3: Judging Roy Moore a Blasphemer
FRDH: No Place of Greater Safety
FRDH Bolshevik Revolution 100th Anniversary Thoughts
FRDH How Media Obscures Our Understanding of History
Catalonia, Kurdistan: What Is A Nation
FRDH Without Memory There is No History, Here’s why
FRDH Berkeley High Point Of The Revolution
Three Things I learned about America on Vacation
When Jews Met the Blues
Mind of the South
FRDH Crash Anniversary Thought: Work ≠ Employment:
Bible Study for Atheists: America, One Nation Under Whose God?
FRDH: Republican Party Is Now a Faction How it Happened
FRDHMosul: ISIS Defeated But Is It Victory?
July 4, 2017: Hanging Together or Separately
FRDH Six Day War 50th Anniversary Meditation
FRDH: Bible Study for Atheists
FRDH Episode 15: Trump's First Hundred Days: How to Survive the Next 100 and the next
FRDH Episode 14 Trump & Security: What's the Policy?
FRDH Episode 13 Brexit & Churchill & United States of Europe
FRDH Episode 12: episode 12: Statistics>Facts>News>Truth>History
FRDH Episode 11 Resistance Is Not Futile, But It Ain't Easy
FRDH Podcast Episode 10: PTSD, Donald Trump, and Civil War
FRDH Special Trump's Travel Ban
FRDH podcast Episode8: America, I Ain't Marchin Anymore
FRDH Special: How America Got This Way
FRDH Episode 6: Paradigm shift Today, A Parable From the Past to Help Understand
FRDH Ep5: Memo to President-elect, Mass Deportation, a History
FRDH Podcast Ep 4: Mind Of The South
FRDH Podcast Ep 3: Class Reclassified
FRDH Podcast ep2: You Say Want a Revolution! Are You Sure?
FRDH Podcast Ep 1: The First Rough Draft Mission Statement
Benedict Spinoza: God Intoxicated Man
Trump And The Politics Of Paranoia
British Jihad
Topeka Kansas 1993
Yellow Springs Ohio 1993
Whitman To Woodstock
Piano Tales: a social history of the Piano
FRDH podcast, Episode 7: King's College Choir
Charlottesville, Virginia 2017 > Natchez, Mississippi 1995
Clarksdale Mississippi 1995
FROM KABUL TO KENT pt 2
FROM KABUL TO KENT, pt 2
9/11 Live: On Air
FEDERALISM: A Political History
Autumn 1973 Ep 5: End of the Post-War Economy
Autumn 1973 Ep 4: Arab Oil Embargo
Episode 9 Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre
Autumn 1973 Ep 2: Yom Kippur War
Autumn 1973 Ep 1: Chilean Coup
Suicide Watch
WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 4 Germany
WHAT IS A NATION? pt3 Bosnia-Herzegovina
WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 2 Kurdistan
WHAT IS A NATION? pt 1 Northern Ireland
WHAT IS A NATION? pt 5 From the ashes of Empires
Faith Without God pt 2: Becoming Religions Anyway
Faith Without God, pt 1