FRDH Podcast

Berkeley: High Point Of The Revolution This episode of FRDH is about Berkeley and the high point of the revolution of the 1960’s as host Michael Goldfarb remembers it. Revolution is a romantic word and...

Three Things I learned about America on Vacation Three things I learned or was reminded of on my first American vacation in more than 15 years. First thing I learned: America is clearly in crisis...

When Jews Met the Blues When Jews met African-Americans in the early part of the 20th century the collision created American popular music. Both groups were immigrants to the great cities of America’s north –...

Mind of the South If you want to know America, you have to understand the Mind of the South. If you want to understand the dynamics that drove events towards the Charlottesville Outrage, you have...

Bible Study for Atheists: America, One Nation Under Whose God? This Bible study for atheists looks at what Thomas Jefferson meant when he wrote about God in the Declaration of Independence. Many evangelical or political...

Republican Party Is Now a Faction How it Happened The Republican Party has become the people James Madison warned us against: a Faction. In any country, the most dangerous thing that can happen is for...

In Mosul ISIS has been defeated but does it count as victory? America’s misadventure in Iraq shows that defeating your enemy on the battlefield is not the same as victory. ISIS defeated in Mosul but...

Hanging Together or Separately July 4, 2017. America is not a happy place. It is splitting apart rhetorically and if only a fraction of the threats posted in social networks are acted on it will...

50th anniversary of the Six-Day War On the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War, Michael Goldfarb has a meditation on how that event changed what it meant to be Jewish and Israeli. The Six-Day War...

Bible Study for Atheists is an occasional feature of FRDH podcast. Michael Goldfarb looks at Bible stories and the Bible’s poetic books and talks about their history and their meaning in contemporary life. In this...

Trump’s First Hundred Days in office have been like no other presidents. There is no deep channel you can follow in trying to write the First Rough Draft of History for this man’s presidency you...

Trump and Security: What’s the Policy? President Trump’s foreign and security policy: What is it? Does the military know? As American war ships steam towards the Korean peninsula and American diplomats argue with Russian leaders...

Brexit, Churchill and The United States of Europe Brexit: An apostate thought: the EU will be better off without UK. Churchill saw it clearly in a speech given on the 19th of September 1946 at...

Statistics Facts News Truth History Facts are the building blocks of journalism leading, hopefully, to the truth, and the FRDH, First Rough Draft of History. In a world overwhelmed by data and statistics facts are...

Resistance is a beautiful word. It is a Romantic word. It is the word of the moment. But what does resistance really mean? Are you a resister if you simply say you are? Anyone can...