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The Chair and the Floor: What the Death of Jason Arday Should Teach Us

Posted on August 15, 2026 by nathanalbright

Jason Arday was found unresponsive in Battersea, south London, on Friday, and pronounced dead at the scene at forty-one. Police have called the death unexpected but not suspicious, which is the careful language of an inquiry that has not yet … Continue reading →

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Assembling an Integrated Causal Account for Patients, Families, and the People Around Them

Posted on August 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Provisional title. “Convergent pulmonary decline” is offered as a working label for a proposed framework, not as a diagnostic term. Abstract Background. Pulmonary complications are among the most frequent serious events in advanced cancer. The clinical literature treats them as … Continue reading →

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Cheap Repetition: Simulation as a Countermeasure to Low-Hour General Aviation Mishaps

Posted on August 10, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The accident profile of the low-time general aviation pilot has been stable for decades and is concentrated in a small number of recurring categories: loss of control in the traffic pattern, continued visual flight into instrument conditions, controlled flight … Continue reading →

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The Difference Between Dead and Asleep

Posted on August 2, 2026 by nathanalbright

[Note:  This is the prepared text for a sermon given to the United Church of God in The Dalles, Oregon on Sabbath, August 1, 2026.] Introduction: A Week Among the Dying and the Dead I have spent most of this … Continue reading →

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The Last Office: The Role and Nature of Pallbearing, With a Typology of Bearers

Posted on July 31, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. The Unexamined Office Nearly every funeral in the Western world involves six to eight people performing a task that no one has trained them for, that they cannot decline without giving offense, and that they will almost never be … Continue reading →

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Paper 2 — Invasion and Survival: The Tocobaga World Under Assault, 1528–1600s

Posted on July 20, 2026 by nathanalbright

Introduction The people described in the first paper—the fishers, shellfish gatherers, and mound-builders of Tampa Bay—stood on the edge of a catastrophe they could not have imagined. Within a single lifetime of the first Spanish landing, epidemic disease, slave-raiding, and … Continue reading →

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The Spanish Entrada: Conquest, Resistance, and Failure at Tampa Bay (1528–1600s)

Posted on July 18, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper examines Tampa Bay as the landing ground for the two earliest large armed European expeditions into the North American interior—those of Pánfilo de Narváez in 1528 and Hernando de Soto in 1539—and as the setting for the … Continue reading →

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When a Senate Seat Empties: South Carolina’s Vacancy Rules in National Context

Posted on July 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

A White Paper Occasioned by the Death of Senator Lindsey Graham (July 11, 2026) Purpose and Occasion Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died on the night of July 11, 2026, from what his office described as a brief and … 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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