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Part One: Christopher B. Zeichmann on Radical Antiquity Mar 02, 2026

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Margaret interviews ancient historian Christopher B. Zeichmann about all the wild stuff happening in the ancient world and confirms her guesses about Spartacus and the Third Servile War

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CZM Book Club: The Comet, by W.E.B. Du Bois Mar 01, 2026

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Margaret reads you a 1920 classic fiction story by the seminal theorist

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Part Two: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US Feb 25, 2026

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Margaret continues her talk with Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South

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https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/writings/negro.html
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https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TE009
https://worldblackhistory.blogspot.com/2022/11/blog-post_11.html
https://lawyersgunsmon.wpengine.com/2012/12/this-day-in-labor-history-december-11-1886
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/day-labor-history-september-25-1891
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https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2025/08/07/doj-secures-first-criminal-conviction-in-wage-fixing-case/
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https://www.grunge.com/601373/what-you-should-know-about-the-granger-movement-of-the-1860s/
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https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030586?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

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Part One: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US Feb 23, 2026

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Margaret talks to Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South

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CZM Book Club: The Clover Still Grows Wild in Wawanosh, by Kelly Rose Pflug-Back Feb 22, 2026

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Margaret reads you a lush post-apocalyptic slice of life story by an amazing poet

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The Punk Rock Good Life: A Guide to an Aesthetic Life Feb 18, 2026

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Margaret reads you an essay about how to live a beautiful life

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CZM Book Club: Black Hole, by November Rush Feb 15, 2026

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Happy Valentine's Day! Margaret reads you a story about codependent lesbian mushroom parasites.

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Part Two: Saint Maximillian Kolbe: A Conservative Who Died Protecting People From Fascists Feb 11, 2026

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Margaret continues her conversation with Molly Conger about a complicated man who spent his early life promoting antisemitic conspiracies before sheltering thousands of Jews and dying in Auschwitz.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/12/05/mass-is-set-for-the-saint-of-auschwitz/18a930db-756e-4f7c-a484-399305713a29/

The Life of St. Maximilian Kolbe, William LaMay

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https://www.reddit.com/r/freemasonry/comments/rva0iu/the_giordano_brunisti/

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https://www.scross.co.za/2023/08/st-maximilian-kolbe-the-remarkable-martyr-to-nazis/

https://www.laprogressive.com/progressive-issues/saint-maximillian-kolbe

Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism, Slavoj Zizek

https://eastwestreport.org/?view=article&id=343:persecution-of-christians-in-tsarist-russia-and-the-soviet-and-post-soviet-union&catid=43:e-20-2

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Part One: Saint Maximillian Kolbe: A Conservative Who Died Protecting People From Fascists Feb 09, 2026

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Margaret talks to Molly Conger about a complicated man who spent his early life promoting antisemitic conspiracies before sheltering thousands of Jews and dying in Auschwitz