Daily Archives: December 30, 2025

Innocence, Transgression, and Moral Knowledge: A Biblicist White Paper on Humanity’s State in Eden and the Biblical Meaning of Innocence

Posted on December 30, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines the biblical concept of innocence, focusing first on humanity’s original state in Eden and then expanding to a broader scriptural theology of innocence across redemptive history. From a biblicist perspective, innocence is neither moral … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Third Thompson Twin: Joe Leeway, Visual Performance, and the Costs of 1980s Pop Stardom

Posted on December 30, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The popular memory of the Thompson Twins often reduces the group to a duo—Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie—especially in retrospective discussions. Yet during the band’s period of greatest commercial and cultural impact (1982–1986), the group was a trio, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: A Typology of Decompression After a Long Day: Healthy and Unhealthy Patterns, Their Functions, and Their Consequences

Posted on December 30, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Decompression—the transition from high demand to rest, reflection, or restoration—is a universal human need. Yet individuals and institutions rarely examine how people decompress, why particular methods are chosen, or what long-term effects those methods have. This paper proposes … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Empathic Ventriloquism in Popular Music: Partner-Perspective Narration in Troubled Relationship Songs

Posted on December 30, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper examines Give Me One Reason by Tracy Chapman, Interstate Love Song by Stone Temple Pilots, and Hands Clean by Alanis Morissette as examples of partner-perspective narration—songs voiced as if from the position of a lover or … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Declaratory Act as a Structural Error in Parliament’s Management of Colonial Discontent

Posted on December 30, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The Declaratory Act (1766) was intended by the Parliament of Great Britain to restore authority after the repeal of the Stamp Act. Instead, it entrenched colonial suspicion and accelerated a pattern of mistrust. This white paper argues that … Continue reading →

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