Monthly Archives: June 2026

The Unverified Captain: Certification, Verification, and the Architecture of Trust at Air Canada

Posted on June 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Within a single month in mid-2026, Air Canada became the subject of two aviation episodes that, read together, expose the load-bearing assumptions of modern airline safety. In the first, a former captain was charged after allegedly commanding more than … Continue reading →

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The Console as a Forward Operating Position: Foreign Sovereign Control of Electronic Arts and the National-Security Question in Interactive Entertainment

Posted on June 29, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The proposed take-private acquisition of Electronic Arts (EA) by a consortium led by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF), with Silver Lake and Jared Kushner’s Affinity Partners holding minority positions, has converted a category of product long dismissed as … Continue reading →

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Equipped to Equip: Leadership for the Building of the Body

Posted on June 28, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  This is the prepared text for a split sermon given to the United Church of God congregation in Portland, OR on Sabbath, June 27, 2026.] Part One: “Equipping the Ministry” — The 2026 General Conference of Elders Brethren, I … Continue reading →

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The Man Who Finishes What He Starts: The Accountant, the Weaponized Mind, and the Modern Imagination of Intelligence, Isolation, and Violence

Posted on June 27, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant (2016), written by Bill Dubuque, asks an audience to admire a figure who, on the surface, should be alarming: a forensic accountant on the autism spectrum who launders money for cartels and arms dealers, kills … Continue reading →

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“I’m Your Huckleberry”: Doc Holliday, the Fragile Gunman, and What America Asks of Its Violence

Posted on June 27, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract In George P. Cosmatos’s Tombstone (1993), the nominal hero is Wyatt Earp, the lawman who restores order to a lawless silver town. Yet the character who has lodged most durably in the American imagination is not the lawman but … Continue reading →

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The Rejected Stone: Southwest Airlines and the Strategic Logic of the Secondary Airport: A White Paper on Airport Selection as Competitive Architecture

Posted on June 26, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary For most of its history, Southwest Airlines has built one of the largest passenger franchises in the world by doing something its larger rivals declined to do: flying into the second-best airport in town. Where American, Delta, and … Continue reading →

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Names That Travel: Belizean Grocery, the Nandwani Trade, and the Long Shadow of a Florida Brand

Posted on June 25, 2026 by nathanalbright

In a small, import-dependent economy, a name does work that a name in a large self-sufficient market never has to do. Belize manufactures little of what fills a grocery shelf; the country’s retail trade is, at its foundation, a logistics … Continue reading →

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The Best Little Zoo in the World: A History of the Belize Zoo

Posted on June 24, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center occupies an unusual place among the world’s conservation institutions: it was not planned, endowed, or designed, but improvised by one woman who refused to abandon a group of film animals left … Continue reading →

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Counting the Cost of Dry Feet: The Engineering Economics of Defending Belize City Against the Rain

Posted on June 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper is a companion to the preceding assessment of Belize City’s rainy-season flooding and long-term viability. Where that paper diagnosed the hazard, this one asks the harder question that follows from it: what does it actually cost to … Continue reading →

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The Rainy Season in Belize City: Storm Regimes, Rainfall Loading, Street Flooding, and the Long-Term Viability of a Sea-Level Capital-of-Commerce

Posted on June 23, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Belize City occupies one of the more difficult sites in the Caribbean basin: a former mangrove flat at or marginally below the level of the sea, exposed to a rainy season that delivers the majority of a high annual … Continue reading →

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