The Worden Report
Friday, December 15, 2023

Far from Heaven

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The film, Far from Heaven (2002), centers around a woman whose husband turns out to be gay. That this is set in 1957-1958 in socialite Conn...

All That Heaven Allows

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Film is an excellent medium for displaying and wrestling with practical philosophy, which includes ethics, political theory, and philosophy ...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

Pope Francis and the Traditionalist Opposition: Transcending Ideological Sides

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Certainly by the close of 2023, a group of American Roman Catholic clerics, informally headed by Cardinal Raymond Burke (a traditionalist an...

On Calls for a Genocide of the Jews: Harvard vs. Yale

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A university administration can be susceptible to creating an unlevel playing field in the name of truth but with political ideology in the ...
Monday, December 11, 2023

On the Role of the U.S. Supreme Court in Safeguarding the Peaceful Transfer of Power

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In the E.U., the state governments and federal institutions can ask the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) for an opinion on a legal matter...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Avatar: The Way of Water

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Sequel to Avatar (2009), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) contains many parallels with the original film—perhaps too many. The most outlandis...
Thursday, December 7, 2023

U.S. Anti-Trust Law: Applicable to Amazon?

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In September, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission and seventeen states sued Amazon on ant-trust grounds for restraining trade and excessively...
Wednesday, December 6, 2023

Time Magazine’s Person of the Year: Taylor Swift

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Time magazine named the singer Taylor Swift as its person of the year for 2023. Such a force of nature were her stadium-filled concerts duri...
Sunday, December 3, 2023

Wall Street

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Oliver Stone’s film, Wall Street (1987) was filmed in the midst of U.S. President Reagan’s push for financial deregulation. As a MBA student...
Saturday, November 25, 2023

Mary Magdalene

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In the film, Mary Magdalene (2018), Mary Magdalene and the other disciples have two different interpretations of the Kingdom of God; these ...
Friday, November 24, 2023

The Exorcist

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One of the most iconic films of the horror-film genre, The Exorcist (1973) focuses on the duality of good and evil that the film’s director,...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Breathless

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Jean-Luc Godard’s film, Breathless (1960), is according to many film scholars difficult to classify in terms of genre. Relative to uncoverin...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

A Night of Knowing Nothing

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Diwali, or Deepavali, is one of the biggest festivals in India. More than a billion Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and Buddhists in the world celebra...
Thursday, November 9, 2023

Bladerunner

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In 1982, when Bladerunner was released, 2019 could only have been a blink of an eye in people’s thoughts. Even the year 2001, the year in wh...
Wednesday, November 8, 2023

The Bride and the Curfew

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Our species is capable of horrific cruelty that defies any claim of having a conscience, and yet we can be willing to override our otherwise...
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