The Worden Report
Thursday, August 22, 2019

The Bahá’i Religion: Theological Problems

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The Bahá’i religion is based on the monotheistic teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, the nineteenth-century prophet whom Bahá’i’s maintain is the pro...

Limits to Overused Fiscal and Monetary Policy Can Result in Self-Induced Governmental Impotence

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“The [U.S.] federal budget deficit is growing faster than expected as President Trump’s spending and tax cut policies force the United S...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Anticipating a Recession: Economic and Political Indicators in the E.U.

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Anticipation in August, 2019, at least among bond purchasers on Wall Street, of an impending recession in 2020 had at least in part to d...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

When Platitudes Undermine Real Change: The Case of U.S. President Obama

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U.S. President Obama’s 2010 speech at the UN’s annual opening lacked tangible proposals.   For example, he urged progress on the Middle Ea...

On the Role of Partisan Political Ideology in the U.S. Supreme Court

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Observing a pattern of sustained ideological proclivities in the decisions of justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, The New York Times edito...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Raising Retirement Ages in the E.U.: The Case of Spain

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The New York Times reported in 2012, “Spain has a stubbornly high budget deficit, its banks require tens of billions of euros in rescue l...

Stock Market Efficiency: Regulating Speed Trades

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A flurry of international activity aimed at putting limitations on computer-based speed-trading was striking during the Fall of 2012 in the...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Managers Going too Far: Targeting Linguistic Over-Reaches

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The practice of using words beyond their contexts such that the words’ meanings are tortured and yet are pretended not to be was a trend in...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Beyond Fixing the U.S. Government's Debt

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After a number of failed attempts over decades to solve a problem, it is natural that the problem itself would barely get mentioned, let al...

Corporations and Political Debate: Taxation & Regulation

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Under U.S. law, the corporation is a legal person, whose wealth can constitute political speech protected by the first Amendment. It is n...

On the Pull of Religious Belief

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John Blake of CNN asks, “Have you ‘walked the aisle’ to ‘pray the prayer?’ Did you ever ‘name and claim’ something and, after getting it,...
Sunday, July 7, 2019

On the Political Power of Capitalism in American Society

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In his confidential memorandum, “Attack on American Free Enterprise System,” Lewis Powell, later to be a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court,...

“USA!” at Ryder Cup 2012: Silent “EU!” Wins

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The Ryder Cup of 2012, held in Illinois, can be read as payback for the European team at the expense of the Americans because the latter h...

Starbucks Capitulates to Overzealous Police Union in Spite of In-Store Intimidation

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On July 4, 2019, six police employees staggered by twos into a Starbucks store in Tempe, Arizona (which borders Phoenix to the west). Becau...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

Presidential Authority and Bureaucracy: Regulatory Agencies

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Circulating in Congress in the fall of 2012 was a bill that would have allowed "the White House to second-guess major rules and mand...
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