Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’: Film popularizes Thomas Piketty’s work
April 30, 2020The latest May Day movie release...playing at a sofa near you.
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European classical music in the U.S. and its foreign policy impact
April 30, 2020Scholar Jonathan Rosenberg simply cannot escape the tight fetters he's placed on his own work, and his innate, naïve confidence in American superiority and exceptionalism.
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‘Parade’ magazine tells us what people earn: How about a maximum wage?
April 13, 2020There’s a kind of voyeuristic “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” quality about this annual survey, we ordinary readers sitting at our kitchen tables drooling over celebrities’ estimated bank statements.
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Why is this Passover, in the U.S. and Israel, different from all other Passovers?
April 8, 2020The eight-day observance of Passover, which begins this year on Wednesday night, April 8, is the most celebrated holiday in the Jewish calendar year.
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Do they really want to kill us?
March 31, 2020If Thomas Malthus felt the answers to overpopulation were war and disease, we are not very far from embracing those solutions ourselves.
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Gripping crime thriller ‘Left of Eden’ set in Hollywood’s Blacklist era
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‘Zajal’: Composer Dave Soldier traces origin of modern song to medieval Spain
March 20, 2020Zajal was produced by Pedro Cortes, called “the foremost American exponent of Gypsy flamenco.”
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Duncan Hunter, post-election California roundup, and current state of the state
March 19, 2020The charge was conspiring to illegally use campaign funds to cover personal expenses. Eleven months is a short penance: He could have been sentenced to as many as five years.
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