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White Paper: The Internet and the Collapse of Jurisdictional Speech Intuition: Why Online Political Discourse Produced Legal Harm Outside the United States

Posted on December 13, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The globalization of online discourse has produced a dangerous mismatch between speech norms learned in one jurisdiction—most commonly the United States—and legal consequences imposed in another. This white paper argues that the internet has collapsed ordinary “jurisdictional speech … Continue reading →

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White Paper: From Isolated Works to New Genres — Understanding Artistic Transitions and Their Defining Marks

Posted on December 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Artistic innovation often begins as a solitary anomaly: a painting that defies conventions, a novel that reorganizes narrative time, a musical track that deploys new production techniques, or a film that reconfigures genre boundaries. Yet only some of … Continue reading →

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White Paper: How NIL and For-Profit Athletic Ventures Could Turn College Athletes into Employees – And What That Would Mean

Posted on December 10, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary The rapid commercialization of college sports—driven by Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) rights, revenue-sharing settlements, and now private-equity–backed joint ventures—has pushed the NCAA’s “amateurism” model to a breaking point. The University of Utah’s proposed private-equity partnership with Otro … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Penalties for Calling Individuals on the Do Not Call List and Policy Responses to the Rising Crisis of Spoofed Calls

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Unwanted telemarketing calls, illegal robocalls, and spoofed caller IDs together make up one of the most persistent consumer-protection challenges in the United States. Despite the presence of the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry, the Telephone Consumer Protection … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Political Causes of Split Highway Numbers and the Consequences of Primary, Secondary, and Split Road Labels

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Highway numbering is often assumed to be a neutral technical exercise, but in practice it is a deeply political process. Split numbers—instances where a single route number is assigned to two or more discontinuous or parallel branches—arise from … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Artificial Intelligence in Biblical Hermeneutics and the Essential Role of Proper Prompt Design

Posted on December 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly large-language models (LLMs), is rapidly becoming a central tool for those who study Scripture—pastors, scholars, lay teachers, and content creators alike. While AI can accelerate research, generate linguistic insights, and offer comparative perspectives on … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Biblicist Grounds for Re-Baptism When Conversion Occurs After an Earlier Baptism

Posted on December 8, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This white paper examines whether Scripture provides grounds for a Christian to be re-baptized if he or she believes true conversion took place after a prior baptism. A strictly biblicist approach reveals that Scripture neither trivializes baptism nor … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Dealing with the Inescapable Problem of Unanticipated Misunderstanding: A Framework for Communication, Institutions, and Personal Practice

Posted on December 7, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Human beings cannot anticipate all the ways in which they may misunderstand others or be misunderstood. This limitation arises from the inherent asymmetry of perspective, the opacity of intent, the under-specification of language, and the unpredictability of how … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Social and Physical Consequences of Cutoff Date Effects in the Educational Environment

Posted on December 7, 2025 by nathanalbright

Children born a few days apart can end up a full year apart in school. This white paper looks at what that does to their social and physical outcomes in public schooling—and why the same dynamic is much weaker or … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Multi-Level Marketing in the Bible? A Biblicist Examination of Claims, Parallels, and Ethical Evaluation

Posted on December 7, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary Claims circulate in popular Christian teaching that “MLMs are described in the Bible” or even that “the early church functioned like an MLM.” These claims are typically made to legitimize a modern business model by analogy with perceived … Continue reading →

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