Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Television and Tito in new exhibitions at the Wende Museum
August 2, 2019I remember thinking, on my forays into Eastern European socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, that politics aside, most people’s lives ambled along pretty uneventfully. The Wende exhibition confirms this impression.
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Can Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter keep his Southern California seat?
July 26, 2019The charges against Duncan Hunter are that he illegally spent campaign funds on vacations complete with zip-lining, hotel stays in Las Vegas and other resorts, sports clothes, video games, the race track, and at least twice,...
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‘The Mountain’: A disturbing feature about lobotomy in the 1950s
July 24, 2019Perhaps The Mountain can be seen as the menacing underside of the Madison Avenue success that America in the 1950s was built up to be.
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‘An American Saga Revival of Gunshot Medley: Part I,’ a Black epitaph
July 23, 2019A lyrical and mystical new play with live music is a high-power rifle shot across the bow of systemic American racism.
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Thornton Wilder says humanity must go on in ‘The Skin of Our Teeth’
July 22, 2019Picture yourself in a comfortable middle-class home on the Atlantic City Boardwalk in Excelsior, New Jersey—during the Ice Age!
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‘Soul of a Nation’: Art of the Black Power decades
July 19, 2019Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983 is a comprehensive, expansive, and some might consider exhaustive overview of the Black Power movement.
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Bertolt Brecht’s Marxist masterpiece ‘Caucasian Chalk Circle’ in stunning production
July 17, 2019German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) changed 20th-century drama with his notion of “epic theater."
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‘The Ruling Clawss’: Redfield provides proletarian humor to the ‘Daily Worker’
July 17, 2019"What he is doing is reflecting the honest disdain of the workers for the pathetic upper classes."
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