Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Culture
‘Vita & Virginia’: Two British novelists’ love affair in new film
September 3, 2019Since her untimely death, British writer Virginia Woolf has become a feminist icon for her literary explorations into the subject of womanhood in contemporary society.
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Culture
L.A.’s Pacific Opera Project offers broad social criticism in The Mikado
August 28, 2019Now Pacific Opera Project (POP) has done it again, offering local audiences another shot at “the most fun one can have in a Los Angeles theater right now."
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Culture
‘American Factory’ offers hope, dismay and a more automated future
August 20, 2019I won’t wait to the end of this review to state that this is must viewing for anyone interested in the future of American labor and the nature of Chinese industry and its labor force.
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Culture
Outrageous hilarity of ‘The Producers’ a critique of capitalist fraud
August 15, 2019I haven’t heard it lately as part of Bernie Sanders’s current shtick, but I distinctly recall him saying in his last presidential run that “Fraud is the business model of Wall Street.”
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Culture
‘A is for Activist’ introduces toddlers to people and ideas on the left
August 12, 2019Imagine my surprise when I opened a 5.5-inch square children’s board book at the home of my niece and her husband and my grandnieces and found myself on virtually every page!
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Culture
Christian Communism: Meet the hosts of ‘The Magnificast’ podcast
August 7, 2019A podcast about the things they didn't teach you in Sunday School.
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Culture
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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News
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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