Daily Archives: December 23, 2025

White Paper: Border-Hopping Stadium Politics: What the Kansas City Chiefs’ Move from Missouri to Kansas Reveals About Intraregional Competition and Comparative Government

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary The Kansas City Chiefs’ announced plan to leave Arrowhead Stadium in Missouri and relocate to a new domed stadium project in Kansas by the 2031 season is more than a sports-facility decision—it is a concentrated case study in … Continue reading →

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White Paper: When Words and Works Diverge: A Typology of Misalignments Between Stated Goals and Actual Operations in Contemporary Institutions

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Modern institutions frequently articulate noble missions—equity, efficiency, service, innovation, transparency, excellence—yet routinely produce outcomes that contradict those aims. This white paper proposes a systematic typology of institutional misalignment, distinguishing structural, incentive-based, epistemic, temporal, and legitimacy-driven divergences between what … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Metric Corruption in Cultural Industries: How Charts, Rankings, and Engagement Systems Drift from Measurement to Manipulation

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Cultural industries increasingly rely on quantitative metrics—charts, rankings, streams, impressions, and engagement scores—to signal legitimacy, success, and public relevance. These metrics were originally designed to measure consumption patterns, but in contemporary practice they have evolved into targets to … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Irreversibility Trap: Why Firms That Fail Due to High Prices and Low Quality Rarely Recover

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Many firms enter decline because of a predictable pairing of problems: prices too high and quality too low. While these issues are easy to diagnose in hindsight, the harder problem is understanding why such firms almost never recover, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: From Prolific Polygyny to Managed Monogamy: Factors Behind the Shrinkage of the Chakri Dynasty from the Mid-19th Century to the Present

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

1. Introduction In the mid-nineteenth century the Chakri dynasty of Siam/Thailand produced royal offspring on a scale that is difficult to imagine today. King Mongkut (Rama IV, r. 1851–1868) fathered around 82 children with 35–36 wives and his son Chulalongkorn … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Literacy of Joseph and the Patriarchs: A Biblicist Analysis

Posted on December 23, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines the question of literacy among Joseph and the broader patriarchal figures in Genesis (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants). From a biblicist perspective, literacy is understood not as a universal social skill but as … Continue reading →

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