The Worden Report
Saturday, May 25, 2024

An E.U. Political Party Mischaracterizes the Union as an Alliance: Suicide by Mis-Identity

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Two weeks before the E.U. election in 2024, far-right parties were projected to do well and thus have more seats in the E.U.’s lower legisla...
Friday, May 17, 2024

Prospects for Civil War in an E.U. State: The Case of Slovakia

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As the E.U. was heading toward legislative elections in 2024, the shooting of Slovakia’s prime minister could have served as a wake-up call ...
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Eurovision Song Contest 2024: On the role of Political Ideology in Inconsistencies

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Political preferences can be salient in organizing bodies of entertainment events that are billed as non-political in nature. This broad inc...
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Chinese President Xi Exploits a Vulnerability of the E.U.

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Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Europe in May, 2024 “amid concerns in Europe over Chinese support for Russia’s war in Ukraine and Europ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

The Lion in the Desert

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In 1929, after nearly 20 years of facing resistance in Libya, Benito Mussolini, the Fascist ruler of Italy, appointed General Graziani as co...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

The Professor and the Madman

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The film, The Professor and the Madman (2019), is based on the true story of James Murray, the editor of the first edition of the Oxford En...
Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Yale Police Arrest 47 Students: A Symptom

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A university is not an inner city, and thus should not be policed as such, as if students were even potentially hostile gang members in need...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

On the Reputational Capital of a Business Leader on a Societal Stage

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Is it better that companies be publicly or privately held? Such a question is of such magnitude that glossy, simplistic answers should be es...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

The University of California at Berkeley

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In visiting a university even for a short period of time, a surprisingly deep grasp of its dominant organizational culture's mentality i...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Living Ritual

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I contend that for a religious ritual to be “alive” is for it to be responsive to spiritual truths as they are played out by or among the pe...
Saturday, March 30, 2024

True Confessions

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The film True Confessions (1981) centers around a priest who is the heir-apparent and assistant of the cardinal of the Archdiocese of Los An...
Saturday, March 23, 2024

Democracy Waning in Former French Colonies in Africa

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The subversion of democracy in former French colonies in Africa stymies the African Union from developing from a mere confederation, wherein...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

The Zone of Interest

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It is, unfortunately, all too easy for the human brain to relegate the humanity of other human beings—to dehumanize them. This is the leitmo...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Decolonializing the Baltic States: Exculpating a “Victim” Identity

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On how to decolonize Eastern Europe, its states must disentangle themselves from the history of the U.S.S.R. and even Russia. This is not si...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

India on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: On the Flawed Hegemony of Political Realism

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India took an equivocal position on Russia’s invasion. This is surprising at first glance because India has been so concerned to protect its...
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