Tag Archives: freedom

White Paper: A Typology of Bloggers and Online Personalities Vulnerable to Restricted-Speech Risks When Traveling to the United Kingdom

Posted on September 26, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Bloggers and online personalities increasingly cross borders while carrying a global archive of speech on their devices and platforms. In the United Kingdom (UK), several legal regimes intersect to constrain certain forms of expression and conduct—both online and … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Dilemma of Persistent Conflict: Politicization of the Military vs. Militarization of the Police

Posted on September 20, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Persistent internal conflict forces states to seek coercive stability. Two common strategies emerge: politicizing the military to govern internal disputes or militarizing the police to suppress unrest. Both approaches alter the balance between state authority, civil society, and … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Distinguishing Cancel Culture from Consequence Culture in Contemporary Society

Posted on September 16, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The terms cancel culture and consequence culture are frequently invoked in contemporary public discourse but are often conflated. Both describe the social response to words or actions deemed offensive, unethical, or harmful. However, they differ in intent, process, … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Space Exploration and Colonization as a Liminal Space for Human Civilization

Posted on September 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Space exploration and colonization represent more than technological or scientific frontiers; they constitute a liminal space in the development of human civilization. Liminality—defined as the threshold between two states of being—captures the ambiguous, transitional quality of humanity’s current … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Timing and Nature of the Abolition of Slavery in the Northern States

Posted on September 8, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The abolition of slavery in the northern United States was not a singular or uniform event, but rather a gradual and regionally diverse process that unfolded between the late 18th and mid-19th centuries. It reflected a combination of … Continue reading →

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On The Day Of Passover

Posted on April 13, 2025 by nathanalbright

[Note: The following are the prepared notes for a sermonette given to the Portland, Oregon congregation of the United Church of God on Sabbath, April 12, 2025.] Good afternoon brethren. Today is a rare situation where we have Sabbath services … Continue reading →

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On Pahlavi Nostalgia

Posted on February 12, 2025 by nathanalbright

Nostalgia for the rule of the Shahs, particularly in contemporary Iran and among Persians living abroad, can be attributed to a variety of reasons, ranging from political to social and cultural factors. Here are some of the key reasons why … Continue reading →

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The Voice Of The Censor

Posted on September 14, 2024 by nathanalbright

As he recorded himself in his writings on the Gulag Archipelago, when the noted Russian writer Alexandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about the tenner he had received as a Soviet Army officer for making a joke about the notoriously touchy dictator Josef … Continue reading →

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Book Review: You Rule!

Posted on July 12, 2024 by nathanalbright

You Rule! Create Your Own Country, by Scott Forbes and Emma Luara Jones This book is published by Lonely Planet for Kids, and it was not exactly the sort of book that I thought it would be. This is not … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Story Of American Freedom

Posted on May 10, 2024 by nathanalbright

The Story Of American Freedom, by Eric Foner Sometimes grammar can make a big difference in how one is to view a book. This book would have been considerably easier to praise had it (accurately) labeled itself as “A Story … Continue reading →

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