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A Summer Story: Bastille Day 1970
Forget about the misery of summer 2020 and let FRDH host Michael Goldfarb tell you a summer story about Bastille Day 1970 in Paris. This departure fr…
5 years, 10 months ago
Mississippi 1995: A Conversation About Race
A conversation about race from 1995 when FRDH host Michael Goldfarb traveled around Mississippi. Racial tensions are once again convulsing America an…
5 years, 10 months ago
Post-Pandemic: Making an Economics of Belonging
An interview with Martin Sandbu of the Financial Times about his new book, The Economics of Belonging. Even before coronavirus struck many people did…
5 years, 11 months ago
Look What's Happening Out In The Streets: Now and Then
"Look what's happening out in the streets," sang the Jefferson Airplane half a century ago. Now, as then, the Airplane could sing, "Look what's happe…
5 years, 11 months ago
Post-Pandemic Lockdown: How Will We Travel?
The pandemic lockdown is coming to an end, summer is beginning, how will we travel? Elizabeth Becker, author of Overbooked, the definitive investigat…
6 years ago
Four Dead in Ohio
Four Dead in Ohio tells the story of the Kent State Massacre, May 4th 1970. On that day the National Guard opened fire on several hundred students at…
6 years ago
Pandemic Poetry: Rivers, Roads and Realms of Gold
Forget being locked in during the coronavirus pandemic and listen to some poetry. Travel down rivers and roads into realms of Gold and everywhere fro…
6 years ago
The Most Frightening Pandemic Number of All
There are so many numbers being thrown around during the pandemic but only one is truly frighening: 26 million Americans have applied for unemployme…
6 years, 1 month ago
Parsing the Pandemic Numbers
In any highly reported catastrophe like the coronavirus pandemic the numbers reported in the press need to be parsed with care. In this FRDH podcast…
6 years, 1 month ago
Lambs and Mercy: Poems for a Worrying Time
We need more poems in day to day life, especially now when everyone has time to contemplate the deep distillations of experience that poets create. …
6 years, 2 months ago