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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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The Marshal and the Bloodstained Confession: Tukhachevsky and the Modern Purge

Posted on June 5, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Why the phenomenon’s survival into the modern age matters The cases examined to this point belong to the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds, to monarchies, city-states, and dynastic empires whose institutions and assumptions are remote from those of … Continue reading →

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The Mat of Lychee Garden: Nguyễn Trãi and Extermination to the Third Degree

Posted on June 5, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Why this case extends the phenomenon into collective punishment The cases examined to this point have concerned the destruction of the deliverer as an individual, the spear aimed at one man, the potsherds cast against one citizen, the tribunal … Continue reading →

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The King She Crowned: Joan of Arc and the Abandonment of a Deliverer

Posted on June 5, 2026 by nathanalbright

1. Why the abandonment variant belongs in the suite The cases examined to this point share a common structure in which the regime that destroys the deliverer is also the regime that wields the instrument of destruction, the spear, the … Continue reading →

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Strange Fire: Liturgical Presumption and the Sin of Self-Authored Worship

Posted on May 25, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract This paper argues that the first priestly abuse named in the canonical narrative is not greed, lust, or cruelty but liturgical presumption — the offering to God of worship He did not command. Building on the principle established in … Continue reading →

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The Persecuted Prophet, the Honored Tomb: A Biblicist Analysis of the Characteristic Response of Israel and Judah to the Prophets: A White Paper

Posted on May 9, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. Introduction: The Paradox of the Whitewashed Sepulchre In one of the most cutting passages of the Gospels, Jesus Christ addresses the religious leaders of His generation with a charge that gathers up the entire history of Israel and Judah’s … Continue reading →

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