Eric A. Gordon
LATEST ARTICLES BY Eric A. Gordon
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Opinion
The struggle for democracy continues: German and American perspectives
June 22, 2018The struggle for democracy is in high gear—or as they say in the global South, a luta continua, the struggle continues.
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Arts
Washing the crime away: ‘Tar’ and ‘The Women of Lockerbie’
June 20, 2018My weekend playgoing curiously featured two plays centered on the theme of washing crime away.
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Arts
‘Skeleton Crew’: Detroit workers’ jobs, homes, pensions, and lives on the line
June 18, 2018This play enacts the hollowing-out of American industry in the Great Recession years that began late in George W. Bush’s presidency.
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Arts
Young Asian-Americans pursue dreams of success in ‘As We Babble On’
June 12, 2018As America moves toward ever greater multi-ethnic nationality, will more democratic racial and gender representation in the halls of success do anything to alter the hardening class divide?
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Arts
Two operatic divas, Regina and Violetta, take St. Louis by storm
June 11, 2018Two strong operatic characters from works composed almost a century apart show the mettle of women who’ve been challenged by society’s conventions.
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‘An American Soldier’: New opera asks troubling questions about citizenship
June 8, 2018Hazing becomes racial harassment becomes sadistic torture becomes death. This was the experience of Pvt. Danny Chen in the U.S. Army.
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Opinion
Considering racial injustice from a humanist perspective: Meet Dr. Anthony Pinn
June 7, 2018Pinn's not an advocate of the “outcome driven” approach to social justice. Instead, he says there is something life affirming in the act of struggling against injustice itself.
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Arts
Patriarchy x 3: Two world premiere plays and an opera
May 31, 2018Last weekend I saw a play, an opera, then another play. Mulling over what to say about them, it struck me that they’re related.
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