E131 - Jean-Daniel Ruch: Write for History, Not for the Minister
Published: October 15, 2026
Duration: 54:27
The Dr. Rod Berger Show is presented by Fair Observer.
At five or six, Jean-Daniel Ruch asked his mother what comes after death. She told him there is nothing, and he spent the next two decades looking for a better answer.
Dr. Rod Berger sits down with Jean-Daniel Ruch, former Swiss ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, Israel and Turkey, and author of Crimes, Hate and Tremors. He grew up in the Bernese Jura during the fight over Moutier's future, a fight he remembers in tear gas, broken windows and posters that read "Moutier equals Belfast."...