The Worden Report
Friday, December 5, 2025

Is Europe in Civilizational Decline?

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Does the E.U. itself instantiate a decline in European civilization? So says a National Security Strategy for the United States released by ...
Thursday, December 4, 2025

Russia’s Bottom-Line on Ukraine

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As American, Ukrainian, and Russian negotiating delegations were flying around the world in early December, 2025 to conduct various negotiat...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

The Master

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In The Master (2012), Lancaster Dodd tells Freddie Quell, the man whom Lancaster wants to cure of alcoholism and mental illness, “I am a wr...

A Reparations Loan or Common Debt: Undercut by State Rights

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“State rights” was a common refrain by the eleven U.S. member states who sought to exit in 1861; the underlying fear was that the exclusive ...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

We Don’t Have Another America: Ukraine on the E.U.

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On America’s Thanksgiving Day, 2025, Dmytro Kuleba, a former foreign minister of Ukraine, was asked whether Ukraine’s government officials c...
Saturday, November 22, 2025

Rewarding Invaders with Profit: The Case of Russia in Ukraine

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  Operant Conditioning in Psychology, the theory advanced by B. F. Skinner in the 1930s, holds that punishment and reinforcement can change ...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

On Harvard's Inner Elite: The Case of Larry Summers

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Should instructors themselves lead righteous, moral lives if they are going to be allowed to teach college students? Does the character of a...
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Pope Leo on the Cinema: A Distinctively Religious Role?

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As “part of the Vatican’s efforts to reach out beyond the Catholic Church to engage with the secular world,” Pope Leo spoke with actors and ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

My Name is Bernadette

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The film, My Name is Bernadette (2011), focuses, almost as an obsession, on the question of whether the girl “actually” saw the Virgin Mary...
Monday, November 10, 2025

COP30: Is Symbolism Enough Amid Climate-Change?

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With the U.S. fed up and only 100 governments left willing to attend COP30 in Brazil on combatting carbon-emissions and the related global w...
Sunday, November 9, 2025

Empire-Scale Representative Democracy: The American Presidency

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On the very day in which a health-care company’s executive collapsed in the Oval Office, with U.S. President Trump being the only person in ...
Friday, November 7, 2025

Gladiator

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Even though it may be tempting to summarize the virtues of ancient Rome as “might makes right” because of the emphasis, which is even in the...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

The E.U. without Enlargement: An Oxymoron?

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The political debates concerning the accession of candidate states such as Texas, California, Alaska and even Hawaii into the U.S. were long...

Silent Night

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The medium of film has an amazing ability to trigger emotions, even very strong ones, through dialogue, narrative, cinematography and sound....
Saturday, November 1, 2025

Ex Machina

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The Latin noun,  machina , can be translated as “machine, engine, military machine, contrivance, trick, or artifice.” The Latin word,  e , o...
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