The Worden Report
Thursday, May 31, 2018

Google Executives Evaded Jail Time in Brazil: Is Business Too Powerful?

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In late September 2012, the Brazilian state police detained the head of Google’s operations in the state after the company’s management fai...

The U.S. Supreme Court: Too Much Ideology in Jurisprudence?

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Should the electorate in a republic be able to remove Supreme Court justices due to their past decisions on particular cases? Can this bas...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Schindler’s List

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In German-occupied Poland during World War I, Oskar Schindler spent millions to save 600 Jews from the death camps. In the 1993 film, Schin...

Questioning Universal Basic Income

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The gist of basic income is that a government “distributes cash universally. As the logic runs, if everyone gets money—rich and poor, the ...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Free Speech in the E.U.: Criminalizing Denials of Genocides

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While the world continued to look on—like an impotent rich man who cannot afford Viagra—as a genocide was taking place in Syria (i.e., th...

Extrapolating from the Arab Spring to Corporate Social Responsibility

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Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Atlantic and a myriad of other companies, sees a natural extension or follow-through from the pro-democr...

The Russian Conscience on Human Rights in Syria

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Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, warned on January 18, 2012, according to the New York Times, “that outside encouragement of anti-...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

The U.S. Federal Reserve as a Regulatory Agency

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According to the Wall Street Journal, the Federal Reserve “has operated almost entirely behind closed doors as it rewrites the rule book go...

UN’s General Assembly as Nonbinding on Syria

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According to the New York Times, “In a powerful rebuke to Syria’s government, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on [...

Limiting Bank Size: Crude But Advisable

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In February 2012, Tyler Cowen claimed in the New York Times that people across the political spectrum were “talking about splitting up Amer...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Naked Royalty: Prince Harry and the Sun

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In publishing naked pictures of Prince Harry on holiday in Nevada, the Sun in Britain ignored the warning from the press watchdog that ha...

Losing the Middle Class: An Educational-Industrial Policy

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Beneath the headlines showing new figures on unemployment (which do not include the unemployed who are no longer looking for work or applyi...

Frank Lloyd Wright: A Modern Renaissance Man

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Perhaps no greater Renaissance man has been cited in American history than Thomas Jefferson. He wrote on the native plants of his country, ...
Saturday, May 12, 2018

On Leveraging the U.S. Debt Ceiling: How the Market Mechanism Handles Trust

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On May 9 2011, U.S. House Speaker Boehner insisted “ on trillions of dollars in spending cuts, and no tax increases, as the price for roun...

Strategic Thinking Beyond the Business Plan

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“When smart people came up with ideas for well-conceived business opportunities, we said go for it. As always, organizational charts, mana...
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