The Worden Report
Saturday, December 24, 2016

Secular Films with Religious Meaning: Film as a Potentially Deep Medium

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A film need not be explicitly religious to proffer spiritual meaning. In fact, gritty stories that wrestle with thorny problems that people...
Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Snowden

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how many words are moving pictures worth? Add in a script and you have actual words—potentiall...
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Squandering a Tradition of Ethical Leadership instead of Protecting the Accrued Reputational Capital: The Case of Ratan Tata in India

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In India, Ratan Tata was a revered figure, dubbed Mr. Clean, until the end of 2016, by which time serious allegations of financial impropri...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Aleppo, Syria: A Complete Meltdown of Humanity

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War is hell; everybody knows that. A ruling power of a government intent on depriving civilians of life during a civil-war battle in a majo...
Monday, December 12, 2016

How American Presidents Are Selected: Beyond Russian Interference

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Most delegates in the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787 recognized the value of constitutional safeguards against excess democracy, or...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Aimee & Jaguar

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Aimee & Jaguar (1999) is a film based on a true story centering on Felice, a Jewish woman who lived in Berlin until 1944 and belonged ...
Saturday, December 10, 2016

Inferno: A Sequel that Goes Up in Flames

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With the allure of additional profits to be had, Hollywood has been all too willing to torch high-quality brands as if with perfect impuni...
Thursday, December 8, 2016

The Golden Age of Innovation Refuted

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“By all appearances, we’re in a golden age of innovation. Every month sees new advances in artificial intelligence, gene therapy, roboti...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

A Business Surtax on Income Inequality: Target the Proceeds

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The medium compensation in 2015 for the 200 highest-paid executives at publicly-held companies in the U.S. was $19.3 million; five years...
Monday, December 5, 2016

Analysis of Italy’s 2016 Referendum: Beyond the Euro and the E.U.

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The predominate axis of analysis in the wake of the Italian referendum in early December, 2016 centered on the euro, the federal currency ...

Young Japanese: An Early Verdict on Climate Change

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Is the verdict in, and have we, mankind, lost our own self-inflicted climate battle? Is this what Japanese millennials were saying in 20...
Friday, December 2, 2016

Business CEO’s Overstating Political Uncertainty in the United States

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The impact on business of political uncertainty in countries that are seized by revolution can be substantial—so much so in fact that CE...

Modern Day Mercantilism: Donald Trump Intervenes at Carrier

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The tension between the free-market philosophy and mercantilism (e.g., an industrial policy) has been longstanding. I contend that the phi...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Springtime for China's Coal Industry: Is China Too Big to Swerve Enough to Avoid the Climatic Iceberg Ahead?

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Even as Chinese government officials “called on the United States to recognize established science and to work with other countries to red...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

A Law School Dean Offers Grief Counseling to "Hysterical" Students after Trump Wins: Legal Reasoning Suffers

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Michael Schwartz, dean of the law school at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock announced in November, 2016 that he would resign the...
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