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White Paper: Living at the Core or the Periphery: A Typology of Daily-Life Indicators of Centrality and Marginality

Posted on December 18, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Core–periphery distinctions are often discussed in abstract economic or geopolitical terms. Yet for individuals and families, these structural realities are experienced daily, through mundane encounters with infrastructure, institutions, culture, authority, and opportunity. This white paper proposes a typology … Continue reading →

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White Paper: National Scale, Local Signaling: The Strategic Tension of Nationwide Firms Operating in Fragmented Cultural Markets

Posted on December 17, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Firms such as Morgan & Morgan exemplify a modern organizational challenge: how to operate at national scale while maintaining local legitimacy across culturally, legally, and socially heterogeneous markets. This white paper examines the strategic logic, structural requirements, messaging … Continue reading →

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White Paper: From Gatekeepers to Signals: The Canceling of Ebro in the Morning and the Changing Relationship Between Radio and Online Music Journalism

Posted on December 16, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The canceling of Ebro in the Morning—a flagship hip-hop radio show associated with Apple Music and Beats 1—marks more than the end of a particular program. It reflects a structural transformation in the relationship between traditional radio authority … Continue reading →

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White paper: How Czech Beads and Belgian Rifles Reached Chadron, Nebraska—and from there the Plains tribes—in the 19th century

Posted on December 16, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary In the 19th century, “trade goods” moved on a long, predictable conveyor belt: European manufacture → Atlantic shipping to U.S. ports → U.S. wholesale hubs → interior transport by river/road/rail → frontier posts and agency towns → Indigenous … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Curated Memory vs. Measured Success: What Bread’s Compilations Reveal About Popularity, Taste, and Soft-Rock Canon Formation

Posted on December 14, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Bread’s legacy is unusually shaped by compilation albums rather than by sustained attention to their original studio LPs. By comparing The Best of Bread (1973), a comprehensive view of Bread’s singles output, and later greatest-hits collections, this white … Continue reading →

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Plain Speaking and the Construction of Legitimacy: A White Paper on Rhetorical Transparency as a Strategy of Authority

Posted on December 13, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Plain speaking—characterized by direct language, minimal euphemism, and an aversion to ornamental or evasive rhetoric—has historically functioned as a powerful strategy for establishing legitimacy across political, religious, legal, and institutional contexts. This white paper examines plain speaking not … Continue reading →

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White Paper: NASCAR’s Legal Vulnerabilities in the Charter System and Revenue Sharing Amid Current Antitrust Turmoil

Posted on December 13, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary NASCAR’s modern business model rests on two linked pillars: (1) the charter system, which allocates guaranteed race entry plus an associated revenue stream, and (2) revenue sharing, which determines how broadcast/media, track, sanctioning, licensing, and other revenues are … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Political Speech as a Border Issue: Which nations restrict entry based on political speech, how it works, and who should care

Posted on December 13, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary Many countries can (and sometimes do) deny entry, cancel visas, or remove visitors when officials conclude that a person’s speech, associations, or political activities create a security/public order/foreign policy risk. In liberal democracies this tends to be narrowly … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Artificial-Intelligence-Based Institutions:Power Plant Infrastructure for a Reliable, Scalable, Low-Carbon Future

Posted on December 12, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive summary AI-based institutions—universities, hospitals, research labs, financial platforms, and public-sector agencies whose core operations depend on high-intensity AI compute—are rapidly turning into power institutions as well. Global data-centre electricity demand is expected to roughly double by 2030, reaching ~900–1,400 … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Understanding Differential Allergic Responses to Inulin in Stevia Versus Garlic

Posted on December 11, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Inulin is a naturally occurring fructan polysaccharide found in many plants, including garlic, chicory, Jerusalem artichoke, and, in some formulations, purified or added to stevia sweeteners. While inulin itself is often treated as a uniform dietary fiber, its … Continue reading →

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