The Worden Report
Wednesday, May 24, 2023

Putin's Fear: Autocratic War Triggering a Russian Revolution

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Having watched Oliver Stone's lengthy interviews of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, which had been taped several ye...
Monday, May 22, 2023

I Wasn't Supposed to be a Writer

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Ideally, a person is able to earn money doing something that matches one's authentic self. In other words, working in a field that is al...
Sunday, May 21, 2023

Some Academic Degrees Are Not So High: Is Your Degree Overvalued?

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American higher education contains its own erroneous nomenclature. Most notably, people having earned one degree in law or medicine are told...
Thursday, May 18, 2023

"Old School" Scholars and the Contemporary American University: Oil and Water

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In  the 2000s, I had the honor of studying under Patrick Riley, a scholar of historical moral, religious, and political thought. Even though...

Behind the Prejudice Against Educated Clergy

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Among Quakers (many congregations of which refuse to record ministers), some evangelical congregations, and other faiths such as Baha'i...

Religion as an Academic Area of Study

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What is religion? What does the domain of religion cover? What is excluded? Does opinion eclipse knowledge in marking the boundaries? Should...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

The Coronation of King Charles III: A Case of Elitist Leadership

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 Is elitism ethical when it seeks to portray itself as favoring racial diversity after having been accused from within of being racist again...
Thursday, May 4, 2023

Bucking Starbucks' Star

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Common sense would perhaps dictate that a company sporting a managerial culture of pathological lying as the default way of dealing with sta...
Monday, December 19, 2022

Rockford University: Paranoid on the Periphery

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A young library supervisor of student workers at Rockford University insisted that Christmas is only a private holiday because it is exclusi...
Sunday, February 20, 2022

On the Aristocracy of Wealth

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The rule of a few—aristocracy. The rule of the wealthy—plutocracy. Where the few, being valued above the many, are determined principally on...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

The Electoral College: Beyond the Conventional Wisdom

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The matter of how the U.S. President is to be selected was a tough nut for the delegates in the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to crack. ...
Thursday, November 25, 2021

Thanksgiving as a Day of Mourning: On the Instinctual Urge of Resentment

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 According to CNN’s website, the “sobering truth about the harvest feast that inspired Thanksgiving” is is the fact that colonists killed In...
Friday, November 5, 2021

Compromising Public Health for a States' Rights Ideology: The Governor of Arizona Nullified a Federal Law during a Pandemic

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On October 27, 2021, I rode on two mass transit buses in Phoenix, Arizona. Both drivers were knowingly and willfully violating the federal r...

On the Role of Business in a Societal or Global Catastrophe

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While it is obvious that a business or industry can affect and be affected by its environment, such as by polluting a river and a hurricane,...
Friday, October 22, 2021

On the Weakening of the Rule of Law in the U.S.

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When law enforcement (i.e., police) conveniently exclude themselves from obeying law, the contradiction should, I submit, be sufficient for ...
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