Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Attractive chamber works by Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor on new CD
March 16, 2021“Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was an iconic, Afro-British composer and a descendent of freed slaves who fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War."
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‘From the Plough to the Stars: Working People’s Prose from Contemporary Ireland’
March 9, 2021The collection reads almost like a tour guide, as the writers lead us through old working-class districts of Dublin and some of the new estates established to rid the cities of their slums.
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Half a million COVID dead: Trump death cult meets shock doctrine
February 22, 2021Today we are a nation of the walking wounded—those of us still above ground.
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‘Agent Sonya,’ a biography of intrepid antifa spy Ursula Kuczynski
February 16, 2021For a couple of decades in the 1930s and 1940s, she was among the USSR’s most important windows to the outside world.
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Homage to Michael: My (East) German friend of half a century
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Thanks to Trump, ‘death panels’ arrive in the City of Angels
January 6, 2021Whatever you do, don’t have a heart attack or stroke in L.A.
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‘Speaker for the God’: Historical fiction about Jeremiah illuminates enduring social issues
December 14, 2020Jeremiah, like other biblical prophets, was a spokesperson for the poor and powerless. He also warned the ruling class of his day to take the Babylonian threat seriously.
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U.S.A. is Number One as COVID-19 deaths pass quarter million
November 18, 2020Death mounts and the economy spirals, but the HEROES Act lies like a corpse on Mitch McConnell's desk.
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