Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
‘The Atheist Mother’ fictionalizes the story of militant freethinker Madelyn Murray O’Hair
October 20, 2022Playwright Willard Manus takes on the famous case of Murray v. Curlett, which challenged the policy of mandatory prayers and Bible reading in Baltimore public schools.
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Culture
A Portugal diary: People, places, and memory
October 19, 2022People’s World staff member Eric Gordon on his first visit back to Portugal since the fall of the fascist dictatorship nearly half-a-century ago.
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Mundo Popular
Estreno mundial de ‘Desert Stories for Lost Girls’ explora la historia de los Genízaro
October 13, 2022
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Culture
A quilt for Ruben, our shared lives in t-shirts
October 11, 2022How do we remember our loved ones? How do we memorialize them?
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Politics
Economic blockade plus internal corruption combine to hurt Venezuela
October 4, 2022Venezuela in the news recently because of prisoner swap: CITGO bankers traded for alleged drug-dealing Maduro family members.
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Culture
World premiere of ‘Desert Stories for Lost Girls’ explores Southwestern ‘Genízaro’ history
October 4, 2022A soulful new play explores an aspect of American Southwest history that most Americans, including many descendants of Native peoples, probably don’t know.
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Culture
‘A Great Wilderness’ explores the world of gay conversion therapy without polemics
September 28, 2022A person’s basic orientation (with myriads of individual variations and nuances) is not like the choice to wear a blue shirt or a green shirt today: It’s now considered inborn.
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Politics
The Portuguese Communists’ Avante Festival is a party like no other
September 22, 2022It takes herculean effort to put on a show like this, and a slew of Communist Party volunteers from all parts of Portugal do most of the work.
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