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CZM Book Club: Soria Moria Castle May 18, 2025

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Margaret reads you a classic norse fairy tale and then makes a thin and likely incorrect argument for why it's a queer parable.

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Part Two: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk May 14, 2025

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Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.

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Part One: How We Beat Polio But Not the Mythmaking Around Jonas Salk May 12, 2025

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Margaret talks with Anney Reese about how a group of people made polio vaccines and ended polio but how one guy took all the credit and ruined our understanding of history.

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CZM Book Club: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Chapters Eight and Nine May 11, 2025

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Margaret reads the final two chapters of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May.

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Part Two: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the Story of Anarchists at War Against Putin May 07, 2025

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Margaret continues talking with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war.

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Part One: International Antifascists in Ukraine: the Story of Anarchists at War Against Putin May 05, 2025

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Margaret talks with Ron Placone about three antifascists who died protecting a humanitarian corridor--and one would-be antifascist who died on the other side of the war.

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CZM Book Club: The Barrow May Send What it May, Chapter Seven May 04, 2025

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Margaret reads chapter seven of her book The Barrow Will Send What it May

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Part Two: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Apr 30, 2025

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Margaret continues talking with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR.

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Part One: A War Against Tankies and Tanks: the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Apr 28, 2025

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Margaret talks with Mia Wong about the communists and socialists who fought for workers’ power against the USSR.