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.
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Iran: Why now? What Next? A Diplomat's Long View
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Iran, US, Israel & Lebanon: a Conversation with Kim Ghattas
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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FRDH on the BBC: Taxi Driver at 50, New York Then and Now
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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Syria Today, Unreported Crisis Brewing
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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RISK ANALYSIS 2026: VENEZUELA IS JUST THE BEGINNING
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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DAYTON AGREEMENT @30: LESSONS FROM BOSNIA FOR UKRAINE
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Britain 2025: Malaise and Unfocused Discontent
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Northern Ireland Post-Conflict Briefing with Blue Lights' Creator Declan Lawn
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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Shock Troops of Fascism: Lost Boys of the Manosphere
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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BRIAN KLAAS ON HOW AMERICA WILL MAKE IT TO THE MIDTERMS
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Oct 12, 2025 |
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Lessons from Ancient Greece for the new Sparta: Israel
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Charlie Kirk's Murder: A Frontline Report From Utah
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Washington DC, August 2025, Fear and Loathing and Worse
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Ray Suarez on Snatch Squads, Men In Masks & Trump's War on America's Latinos
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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SCOTUS & Snatch-Squads: Is This the End of the 14th Amendment?
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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US/Israel vs Iran: Unknown Unknowns and Blowback
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Jun 23, 2025 |
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Authoritarian Democracy: Erdogan and the Turkish Paradigm
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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21st Century Trade Wars: Is There a Rhyme or a Reason?
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May 17, 2025 |
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The World Is On The Move: Migration By Land and Sea
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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America's Constitutional Crisis: A Lesson From Medieval English History
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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FRDH on the BBC, NATO: THEN, NOW, NOW WHAT?
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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China: What Now?
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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A Historical Era Without Precedent: The US - Russia Alliance
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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The American Crisis: Founders' Words 250
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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FRDH ON THE BBC: KADDISH, WHY WE PRAY FOR THE DEAD
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Reborn From the Flames: Notre Dame Reopens
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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So Now What? Edward Luce on Trump MKII, the Revenge Tour
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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Pricing Political Risk: Trump and American Imperial Decline
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Nov 23, 2024 |
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ELECTION 2024: GEORGIA'S LONG HISTORY OF RIGGING ELECTIONS
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Why Nasrallah’s Death Is Not the Beginning of the End of Hezbollah
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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Paris: Love, Loss, Language
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Aug 30, 2024 |
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October 7th, the Gaza War and the Absence of Truth
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Aug 24, 2024 |
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Iran and Israel: War or Retaliation?
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Anti-Semitism Without Jews
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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The SCOTUS Presidential Immunity Decision and International Law
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Elections 2024: France & Macron’s Big Gamble
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Trials, Elections: A Week in Anglo-American Politics 2024
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Jun 01, 2024 |
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Presidential Immunity 2024: the Founders vs Trump's Supreme Court
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Israel, Iran, Gaza, Hamas: World War 3?
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Why They Still Fight: Ukraine Year 3
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Why Everything Matters: Fluke with Brian Klaas
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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2023s Disproportionate Wars: What Lindsey Hilsum Learned Covering Them
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Britain 2023: How Has So Much Gone So Wrong?
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Dec 08, 2023 |
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60 Years On: Living Memories of President Kennedy’s Assassination
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Israel Hamas 2023: Lebanon, Iran & the Region, What Next?
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Israel Hamas 2023: Waiting for the Next Phase to Begin
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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How Do You Know for Sure? Conspiracy and the Media
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Chilean Coup 1973: an Eyewitness's History
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Christian Nationalism: Hypocrisy and Heresy in America Today
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Saudi Arabia: Silent Kingdom Steps Center Stage
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Odesa 2023: War, Identity and Poetry
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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History Repeats: First Time as Tragedy, Second Time It's Still Tragic
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Jul 15, 2023 |
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Tel Aviv Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrations: A Rough Draft in Sound
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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Democracy in Crisis: One Idea for Fixing It
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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China Today: One Leader, Many Chinas
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May 15, 2023 |
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25 Years Later: Mo Mowlam and the Price of Northern Ireland's Peace
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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One Iraqi’s War, Hopes and Ruins, A Sound History
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Sir Lawrence Freedman on Two Wars, Two Anniversaries: Ukraine & Iraq
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Mar 11, 2023 |
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2023: Israel At the Authoritarian Crossroads
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Cultural History: Greenwich Village 1944, Brando and Baldwin
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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NHS at 75: A Surgeon, Now A Patient's History
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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America Held Hostage: Week 1 of 2023
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Jan 07, 2023 |
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2022 Holiday Special: Jewish Ukrainian Music from Before Putin’s War
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Bible Study for Atheists: The Midterms and the Renewed Search For a Strongman
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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FRDH In Ukraine: L'viv Diary
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Autumn 2022 and Its Economic Crises: Local and Global
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Gorbachev: Geopolitical Visionary, Domestic Political Failure
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Bill Russell: Wasn't That a Time?
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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October 1973, Dawn of America's Reactionary Age
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Inflation: Now and Then
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Jul 01, 2022 |
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The Queen and I: Jubilee Rough Draft
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Ukraine: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History
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May 24, 2022 |
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FRDH on the BBC: Emancipation, Assimilation & Jewish Identity
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May 16, 2022 |
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Ukraine War: There Are No Simple Words, It's Time for Poets
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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What is the real Russia: Tolstoy or Putin? Culture or Cruelty?
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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An Odesa Story: A Tale From the Bloodlands’ Past
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Mar 11, 2022 |
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Putin: Waging 21st Century War for 19th Century Reasons
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Ukraine-Russia, Riddle-Enigma: Draft History of A Crisis
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Deja Vu: Bosnia & Ukraine, Europe & the US ... & Britain
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Brian Klaas on Power and Why the Wrong People Keep Getting It
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Jan 05, 2022 |
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2021: A Personal First Rough Draft of History
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Rediscovering America, One Library At A Time
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Dec 10, 2021 |
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Thanksgiving 400: Facts, Legends, Poetry
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Bible Study for Atheists: Americans Are Selling Their Birthright
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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How 9/11 Changed Everything ... In Britain
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Kabul's Fall: An Eyewitness's First Rough Draft of History
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Afghanistan: Then, Now ... How, Why?
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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How Podcasting Became a Cultural Phenomenon
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Gavin Esler on How (and Why) Britain Will End
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Midsummer Meditation: England, Then And Now
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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Bible Study for Atheists: Israel, Palestine & Mercy
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May 21, 2021 |
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Bible Study for Atheists: Jews, Christians and Jewish Christians
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May 08, 2021 |
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Britain's Tories: Corruption & the One-Party State
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May 01, 2021 |
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Three Women, the Vietnam War and the First Rough Draft of History
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Apr 16, 2021 |
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Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 5, Vienna
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 4, Hamburg
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 3, Frankfurt
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 2, Berlin
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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Jewish Ghost Stories: Chapter 1, Amsterdam
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Mar 26, 2021 |
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Seduced, Abandoned ... Redeemed? The Pope in Iraq
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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FRDH on the BBC: Rush Limbaugh, Voice of America's Calamity
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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21st Century Epistemology: How Do We Know What We Know Is True?
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Rules For Starting a Civil War
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Feb 03, 2021 |
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Trump's Capitol Building Riot: Insurrection, Coup d'Etat or Something Else?
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Reality vs Twitter in the Year of the Pandemic with Robin Lustig
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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The Crown, Thatcher & Brexit: No, No, NO!
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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New York Stories: Leaving Home 1985
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Election 2020: A Philadelphia Diary
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Election 2020: Scranton Trump Feels the Love One Last Time
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Election 2020 in Reading Pa.: PTSD and Organizing, not Mourning
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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All My Presidents (and one Prime Minister): Clinton and Bush
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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All My Presidents: Carter and Reagan
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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QAnon: Who's In Charge, Here?
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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All My Presidents: Eisenhower and Kennedy
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Biden/Harris: the Pandemic Campaign and Postal Voting
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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100 Days Til the US Election: What Is The Reality?
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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A Summer Story: Bastille Day 1970
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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Mississippi 1995: A Conversation About Race
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Jul 03, 2020 |
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Post-Pandemic: Making an Economics of Belonging
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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Look What's Happening Out In The Streets: Now and Then
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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Post-Pandemic Lockdown: How Will We Travel?
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May 24, 2020 |
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Four Dead in Ohio
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May 04, 2020 |
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Pandemic Poetry: Rivers, Roads and Realms of Gold
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May 02, 2020 |
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The Most Frightening Pandemic Number of All
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Parsing the Pandemic Numbers
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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Lambs and Mercy: Poems for a Worrying Time
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Looking for Ghosts
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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Bible Study for Atheists: Solomon’s Wisdom & A Divided Society
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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Sanders ≠ Corbyn or Anyone Else, That May Be HIs Secret
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Feb 14, 2020 |
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The Paradox of Tolerance and the First Amendment
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Suleimani Assassination pt 2: Iran's Vengeance? What Can It Realistically Do?
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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Suleimani Assassination: The View From the Real Battleground: Iraq
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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UK US Elections: What is the Center?
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Dec 14, 2019 |
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Bible Study for Atheists: Don the Revelator
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Dec 06, 2019 |
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FRDH on the BBC: HIgh Crimes and Misdemeanours
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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Tom Holland On Dominion: Christianity and the Western Mind
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Nov 02, 2019 |
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A Presidential Tweet>A Turkish Invasion = ISIS Reborn?
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Trump/Johnson Let's Make a Deal
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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Brexit: A Judicious (not Judicial) Review
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Sep 14, 2019 |
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How Brexit Killed the Conservative Party
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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Brexit Britain Breaking Up? Are You Sure?
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Trump, Pelosi, the Squad and a Great American Novel
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Jul 21, 2019 |
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Brexit and the British Ambassador
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Jul 13, 2019 |
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Iran War Fever: a 40-year History
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May 18, 2019 |
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Republic or Empire: Pax Americana?
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May 02, 2019 |
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Remembering the Forgotten: Gabriel Riesser
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Apr 19, 2019 |
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Brexit: a Ghost Story
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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The Very, Very First Rough Draft of HIstory: What Assyria Can Teach Us
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Mar 14, 2019 |
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America's Decades Long Incivil War
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Venezuela & the US: Everything Must Change
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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The Brexit Vote: A Report from Very English Scene
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Jan 17, 2019 |
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The Many Meanings of Treason
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Jan 03, 2019 |
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The NHS at 70: Born From Crisis, Enduring Stil
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Work: a Matter of Life and Death
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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The Midterms and the Democrats' Dilemma
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Nov 09, 2018 |
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Pipe Bombs and How Societies FallApart: A Talk with Author Aleksandar Hemon
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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FRDH on the BBC: Journey To Ashkenaz
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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The Democrats in the Midterms: with Brian Klaas
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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On Being Cut Off From History
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Sep 26, 2018 |
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50 Years After the Soviet Invasion: Czech Cinema Lives On
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Aug 20, 2018 |
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Ireland: Borders, Brexit & Omagh
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Aug 13, 2018 |
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Death, Taxes and Donald Trump
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Jul 22, 2018 |
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Civility And the Paradox of Tolerance
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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Reality in the age of trump
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Jun 20, 2018 |
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Bible Study for Atheists: Jewish Quarrels
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Jun 09, 2018 |
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Iran: Ignorance Is Not Bliss
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May 25, 2018 |
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Reality of Torture With No Euphemisms
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May 11, 2018 |
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Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary Meditation: What Would You Have Done?
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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King and Kennedy Assassinations: America's Repressed Trauma
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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Iraq War 15 Years On: What Might Have Been
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Liberal, Conservative: Can We Decide What These Words Mean?
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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Remembrance, Ritual, the Sacred and Auschwitz
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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Year 1 Trump report: Crazy or a member of the Club?
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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1968>2018: 50 Years On Time to Change the Paradigm
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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America 2017: Magical Thinking vs Reality
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Dec 29, 2017 |
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Bosnia, Mladic: the Price of Justice
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Nov 24, 2017 |
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Bible Study for Atheists 3: Judging Roy Moore a Blasphemer
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Nov 12, 2017 |
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FRDH: No Place of Greater Safety
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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FRDH Bolshevik Revolution 100th Anniversary Thoughts
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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FRDH How Media Obscures Our Understanding of History
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Catalonia, Kurdistan: What Is A Nation
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Oct 11, 2017 |
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FRDH Without Memory There is No History, Here’s why
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Sep 28, 2017 |
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FRDH Berkeley High Point Of The Revolution
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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Three Things I learned about America on Vacation
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Sep 09, 2017 |
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When Jews Met the Blues
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Aug 21, 2017 |
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Mind of the South
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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FRDH Crash Anniversary Thought: Work ≠ Employment:
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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Bible Study for Atheists: America, One Nation Under Whose God?
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Jul 26, 2017 |
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FRDH: Republican Party Is Now a Faction How it Happened
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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FRDHMosul: ISIS Defeated But Is It Victory?
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Jul 10, 2017 |
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July 4, 2017: Hanging Together or Separately
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Jul 03, 2017 |
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FRDH Six Day War 50th Anniversary Meditation
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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FRDH: Bible Study for Atheists
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May 30, 2017 |
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FRDH Episode 15: Trump's First Hundred Days: How to Survive the Next 100 and the next
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Apr 29, 2017 |
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FRDH Episode 14 Trump & Security: What's the Policy?
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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FRDH Episode 13 Brexit & Churchill & United States of Europe
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Mar 29, 2017 |
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FRDH Episode 12: episode 12: Statistics>Facts>News>Truth>History
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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FRDH Episode 11 Resistance Is Not Futile, But It Ain't Easy
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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FRDH Podcast Episode 10: PTSD, Donald Trump, and Civil War
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Feb 15, 2017 |
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FRDH Special Trump's Travel Ban
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Feb 03, 2017 |
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FRDH podcast Episode8: America, I Ain't Marchin Anymore
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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FRDH Special: How America Got This Way
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Dec 16, 2016 |
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FRDH Episode 6: Paradigm shift Today, A Parable From the Past to Help Understand
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Nov 25, 2016 |
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FRDH Ep5: Memo to President-elect, Mass Deportation, a History
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Nov 16, 2016 |
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FRDH Podcast Ep 4: Mind Of The South
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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FRDH Podcast Ep 3: Class Reclassified
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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FRDH Podcast ep2: You Say Want a Revolution! Are You Sure?
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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FRDH Podcast Ep 1: The First Rough Draft Mission Statement
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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Benedict Spinoza: God Intoxicated Man
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Jul 03, 2016 |
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Trump And The Politics Of Paranoia
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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British Jihad
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Apr 16, 2016 |
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Topeka Kansas 1993
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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Yellow Springs Ohio 1993
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Jun 20, 2015 |
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Whitman To Woodstock
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Jun 01, 2015 |
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Piano Tales: a social history of the Piano
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Mar 11, 2015 |
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FRDH podcast, Episode 7: King's College Choir
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Dec 23, 2014 |
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Charlottesville, Virginia 2017 > Natchez, Mississippi 1995
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Nov 30, 2014 |
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Clarksdale Mississippi 1995
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Nov 26, 2014 |
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FROM KABUL TO KENT, pt 2
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Oct 21, 2014 |
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FROM KABUL TO KENT pt 2
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Oct 21, 2014 |
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9/11 Live: On Air
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Sep 10, 2014 |
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FEDERALISM: A Political History
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Sep 05, 2014 |
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Autumn 1973 Ep 5: End of the Post-War Economy
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Jun 04, 2014 |
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Autumn 1973 Ep 4: Arab Oil Embargo
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Jun 04, 2014 |
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Episode 9 Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre
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Jun 04, 2014 |
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Autumn 1973 Ep 2: Yom Kippur War
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Jun 04, 2014 |
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Autumn 1973 Ep 1: Chilean Coup
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Jun 04, 2014 |
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Suicide Watch
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May 11, 2014 |
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WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 4 Germany
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Apr 30, 2014 |
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WHAT IS A NATION? pt3 Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Apr 30, 2014 |
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WHAT IS A NATION? pt. 2 Kurdistan
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Apr 30, 2014 |
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WHAT IS A NATION? pt 1 Northern Ireland
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Apr 30, 2014 |
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WHAT IS A NATION? pt 5 From the ashes of Empires
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Mar 25, 2014 |
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Faith Without God pt 2: Becoming Religions Anyway
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Feb 19, 2014 |
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Faith Without God, pt 1
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Feb 19, 2014 |