FRDH Podcast

Reality of Torture With No Euphemisms The reality of torture is usually smothered in euphemism when it is discussed in Washington as it has been during the Senate hearings on Gina Haspel, Trump’s nominee to...

Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary Meditation: What Would You Have Done? On the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, FRDH host Michael Goldfarb has a meditation on the uprising’s meaning today. He tells the story of...

King and Kennedy Assassinations: America’s Repressed Trauma The assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy in the spring of 1968 was a national trauma. Like most traumas people have repressed their memories of...

Iraq War 15 Years On: What Might Have Been The Iraq War began 15 years ago. Seems like ancient history given where America is now. This FRDH podcast, made at the start of the war,...

Liberal, Conservative: Can We Decide What These Words Mean? What do the words liberal and conservative mean any more? What about left and right? No one is sure. Certainly not the news media who throw...

Remembrance, Ritual, the Sacred and Auschwitz What is the historical process by which something becomes sacred? Is Auschwitz a sacred place? In this FRDH podcast, Michael Goldfarb asks what is the historical process that leads...

Year 1 Trump report: Crazy or a member of the Club? The big question at the end of Donald Trump’s first year in office is: Is he crazy or just typical of his social class?...

1968-2018: 50 Years On Time to Change the Paradigm In 2018 There will be many stories marking the 50th anniversary of events from 1968. 1968 year of defeat, assassination, riots and treason in America. There...

America 2017: Magical Thinking vs Reality America in 2017: was the story of Magical Thinking vs Reality. For Trump voters it was a confirmation of everything their “unbiased” news told them. For the anti-Trump brigade...

Bosnia, Mladic: the Price of Justice The fact that we are in a new historical epoch was underscored recently in the response to the news that Robert Mugabe and Ratko Mladic, two men who ruined...

Bible Study for Atheists 3: Judging Roy Moore a Blasphemer Share this Bible Study for Atheists, in which FRDH podcast host Michael Goldfarb looks at the controversy over Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. A...

Bolshevik Revolution 100th Anniversary Thoughts The Bolshevik Revolution is to political change, what nuclear weapons are to warfare: the ultimate deterrent. The question on this 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution is what happens to...

How Media Obscures Our Understanding of History Media obscures history. Not intentionally, but the effect of looking at images without a deeper understanding of the context in which the images were created will keep the...

What is a Nation? Referendums in Iraqi Kurdistan and Catalonia raise the question “What Is a Nation?” What is a nation? What is a nation-state? Is it the same as a country? Are a people,...

Without Memory There is No History, Here’s why If an event happens and there is no one to witness and remember it, does it become part of history? If memory is eliminated is it possible...