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Paper 3: The Baseline Problem: Attention Relative to What?

Posted on September 1, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. The Question Paper 2 Left Open Paper 2 built a numerator. It specified seven instruments for measuring how much attention each Pacific War operation currently receives, named the bias in each, and proposed a rank-normalized composite for use in … Continue reading →

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The Comparison Class Problem in Corpus Silence

Posted on August 14, 2026 by nathanalbright

Paper 5 of Five Abstract This is the guardrail paper and the one that protects the series. Every claim in Papers 1 through 4 is an absence claim, and absence claims are the easiest kind to make and the easiest … Continue reading →

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Making Absence Findable Without Making Fabrication Admissible: Institutional Design for the Recovery of Unnamed Maternity

Posted on August 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The four preceding papers in this series established an evidentiary typology for founding-era paternity claims, demonstrated that the standard applied to the Jefferson–Hemings case was anomalously strict relative to like claims, proposed a genetic-genealogical program for identifying the mother … Continue reading →

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Identifying the Mother of William Franklin: A Proposal for a Genetic-Genealogical and Documentary Research Program

Posted on August 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The maternity of William Franklin (c. 1730–1813), illegitimate son of Benjamin Franklin and royal governor of New Jersey, has never been resolved. No contemporary document names the woman; no family tradition survives naming her; the historiography has produced candidates … Continue reading →

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Comparable Cases: The Jefferson–Hemings Question Against Other Founding-Era Paternity Claims

Posted on August 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The Jefferson–Hemings case is frequently discussed as though it were singular — either as a uniquely well-documented scandal or as a uniquely aggressive scholarly imposition. Neither framing survives comparison. This paper surveys the founding generation for structurally similar claims: … Continue reading →

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The Number Nobody Wants: Why Counting People Becomes Politically Impossible

Posted on August 8, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract Knowing how many people live in a place looks like an unmixed good. Planners need it, hospitals need it, water systems need it, and famine relief cannot be sized without it. Yet a substantial share of the world’s population … Continue reading →

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The Region Ahead of Its Data: Megaregions of Sub-Saharan Africa — Span, Cohesion, and a Working Typology

Posted on August 6, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. A Different Kind of Question Every previous paper in this series has asked what a region’s megaregions are. For Sub-Saharan Africa the honest question is what they are becoming, and that changes the character of the analysis in ways … 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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White Paper 5: Measuring “Ministerial Skill” Under Low-Expectations Messaging

Posted on May 3, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Framing the Problem The first four papers of this suite have addressed the structural and rhetorical conditions of authority within the assembly: the alignment between metaphor and corporate form, the New Testament patterns of authority and their non-transferable limits, … Continue reading →

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Instrument A — The Peripheral Legitimacy Index (PLI)

Posted on April 28, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Purpose and Scope 1.1 What the Index Measures (and Explicitly Does Not) The Peripheral Legitimacy Index measures the standing a region holds within the political arrangements that bind it: the degree to which the region is recognized, represented, resourced, … Continue reading →

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