Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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World
Call for ‘Total Peace’ in Colombia dominates Witness for Peace delegation
February 9, 2023During ten eventful days in January, a U.S. delegation made up of faith leaders, activists and educators made their way through Colombia to build solidarity with grassroots movements calling for peace.
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Culture
‘Home Front’ probes race, gender and sexuality in post–World War II era
February 8, 2023"It’s shocking that, more than 70 years after WW II ended, questions about states’ right to ban interracial marriage have resurfaced.”
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Culture
‘Let It Be Morning,’ a stunningly powerful almost all-Palestinian Israeli film
February 2, 2023Let Let It Be Morning serve as yet another warning, a lovingly crafted, humanly noble alarum, of the Armageddon to come.
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Culture
‘Hercules on the Thermodon’: Antonio Vivaldi’s baroque battle of the sexes
January 12, 2023Perhaps the opera is meant to disarm the most polarized tendencies between men and women in a highly stratified society that gave women little power.
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Culture
Fernando Botero at 90: Works featured at the Museum of Latin American Art
January 6, 2023Also, don’t miss the work of up-and-coming artist Narsiso Martinez.
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Culture
‘Turn Every Page’: A loving documentary about ideas, writing and comradeship
January 5, 2023Viewers will be well rewarded by this film whose appeal extends far beyond the literary types.
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Books
Book review and response: ‘People Love Dead Jews’
January 4, 2023These essays touching on the overall theme—“reports,” with a more corroborated affidavit —were mostly published in other venues before coming together as a book of 12 fascinating, elegantly argued chapters.
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Culture
Immerse yourself in the Chinese Cultural Revolution at the Wende Museum
December 14, 2022The Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–76) was a period of tremendous social and economic upheaval within China itself that also had deep global reverberations.
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