The Worden Report
Monday, February 16, 2026

Is the E.U. in the U.S.'s Strategic Interest?

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Is a more perfect Union in Europe in America’s national interest? On the American holiday in 2026 that principally honors George Washington,...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

Mutual Cooperation as Insufficient as E.U. Defense Policy

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The words mutuality and cooperation have positive connotations politically, whereas divisive and exclusive do not. To be sure, mutual cooper...
Friday, February 13, 2026

The ECJ Castigates the Commission for Paying Off Hungary

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In an opinion submitted to the European Court of Justice, which tends to follow the legal opinions the 11 Advocates General, Tamara Capeta r...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

On the E.U.’s Complex Federal System

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Because the “the EU is built on consensus at 27” states, [1] by 2026 it had become painfully obvious to Europe’s elite that its Union had c...
Wednesday, February 11, 2026

On the Self-Entitlement of Yale’s Faculty

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Whereas the emails that Larry Summers sent to the disgraced underage-sex-ring boss, Jeffrey Epstein, did not—at least to my knowledge—involv...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Confucius on the Ethics of Religious Knowledge

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A contemporary scholar of Chinese philosophy wrote, “myths often contain an element of historical truth, and what passes for historical trut...
Monday, February 2, 2026

Selfishness and Damnation on the Boston Subway

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Imagine a crowded, standing-room-only subway car during rush hour in Boston, Massachusetts. Even though many riders are standing, a seated p...
Friday, January 30, 2026

On America’s Dominance in NATO: The E.U. as a Contributory Factor

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Just after the E.U. had successfully negotiated (mostly) free-trade treaties with India and a few South American state-level countries, the ...
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Sarah Mullally as the Archbishop of Canterbury

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On January 28, 2026, Sarah Mullally became the first woman to occupy the seat of the archbishop of Canterbury, which is the spiritual leader...
Tuesday, January 27, 2026

E.U.-India Free Trade

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Early in 2026, “(a)fter months of intense negotiations,” the E.U. concluded “a free-trade deal with India,” which, if ratified by the E.U.’s...
Saturday, January 24, 2026

Devil’s Advocate

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In the film,  Devil’s Advocate   (1997), human free-will plays a very important role. It has implications not only for whether humans tend t...
Friday, January 23, 2026

The Vatican Tapes

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After The Omen (1976), which was released just two years after the sardonic U.S. President, Richard Nixon, had resigned in utter disgrace f...
Thursday, January 22, 2026

Ukraine’s Zelensky Nails the E.U.

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On a day when “(a)pproximately 4,000 building in Kyiv lacked heating . . . as temperatures plunged to -20C amid Ukraine’s coldest winter in ...
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Religious Liturgy and the Wholly Other

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In the Zhuangzi , how can Zhuangzi possibly know that the fish are happy? To know what it is like to be a bat, a person must be a bat. This ...

Congressional Subpoenas: The Case of the Clintons

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The rule of law is absolutely essential to a representative democracy being able to endure even as strong personalities in public office may...
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