The Worden Report
Saturday, October 26, 2024

China Castigates the E.U. on Taiwan

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“Act prudently.” This was the warning addressed to the E.U. by China’s president Xi after the European Parliament voted 432 to 60 on October...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Facing a Hot and Hostile Planet

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On October 24, 2024, Tjada McKenna, CEO of Mercy Corps, and formerly in the Obama administration working on global hunger, spoke at Harvard ...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Strengthening the E.U.’s Border Competency: Implications for Federalism

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In politics, it’s not a bad idea to consider the impact on the system of government in formulating, voting on, and enacting laws and regulat...

The Resurrected Body of Jesus: A Viable Launching Pad for Mysticism

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Gertrud of Helfta (1256-1301) was a Christian nun whose sensitivity to mystical experience can be characterized as a bridal mysticism within...
Monday, October 21, 2024

Russian Vote-Buying: Compromising International Law and Moldova in the E.U.

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As if Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were not a sufficient reason for Moldovans to vote in a referendum in 2024 to align the country’s constit...

Eternal You: AI after Death

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The documentary, Eternal You (2024), is one film that zeros in on the use of AI to contact loved ones who have died. As the marketing depar...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Love as God Loves Us: Embodying Inconvenient Compassion

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I contend that compassion is an automatic byproduct of having shut out the outside world for a time to experience transcendence in its relig...
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

A Hindu Goddess Destroying and Recreating Other Hindu Deities: Contrasting the Christian Trinity

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The Saundarya Lahari characterizes the Hindu goddess, Devi, as being the power behind the proverbial throne—meaning the thrones of the thre...
Monday, October 14, 2024

October 12th: Happy Vikings Day!

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I contend that the ideological war being waged in the United States by the 2010s over whether October 12 th   should be “Indigenous People’s...
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Starbucks Bucks Its Workers’ Labor Union

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Even though more than 500 Starbucks shops had unionized by the end of 2024, it seems that the company’s management did not respect the new ...
Friday, October 11, 2024

AI Facial-Recognition Software in China: Ethical Implications beyond Political Economy

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By the 2020s, the Chinese government had made significant advances in applying computer technology to garden-variety surveillance. To do so,...

Turkey Abusing Asylum-Seekers: Implications for E.U. Statehood

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Over 90% of Turkey is not located in Europe, and yet for years the sovereign state has sought accession in the E.U. in spite of Turkey’s non...
Wednesday, October 9, 2024

On Lord Krishna’s Self-Revealing in Hinduism’s Bhagavad-Gita

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Even as much as divine entities reveal themselves to particular human beings, our finiteness cannot completely perceive or know such an enti...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

Cancelled Classes: Harvard’s Far-Left Ideological Courses Take a Hit

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I contend that the more courses that are heavily ideological and biased in advocating a particular ideology that a university has, the highe...
Thursday, October 3, 2024

On the American Media’s Hyperbole in Politics

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If America can be said to have violent cultures, relatively speaking and especially in countries such as Honduras but also in some U.S. stat...
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