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White Paper: The Long-Term Societal Effects of Political Assassinations Against Non-Elites

Posted on September 16, 2025 by nathanalbright

Abstract Political assassinations typically target high-profile leaders or revolutionary figures. However, when such violence is directed at individuals outside of formal political power—activists, journalists, community leaders, or even ordinary citizens—the psychological and structural consequences are distinct. Ordinary people see victims … Continue reading →

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White Paper: The Dark Psychological Arts of Power: Trauma as a Tool of Control and Paths to Liberation

Posted on September 9, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary History and psychology alike show how powerful individuals often wield trauma as a weapon against those they consider beneath them. These dynamics span abusive workplaces, political regimes, cults of personality, and even family systems. This paper explores the … Continue reading →

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White Paper: Brain Trauma and the Legacy of Injury—Exploring CTE, Tau Proteins, and the Nature of Psychological and Physical Trauma

Posted on May 25, 2025 by nathanalbright

Executive SummaryThis paper explores the implications of trauma on the human brain, comparing physical trauma such as concussive injuries in contact sports with other forms of trauma including emotional, psychological, and developmental trauma. It investigates whether chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Whatever It Took

Posted on December 11, 2020 by nathanalbright

Whatever It Took: An American Paratrooper’s Extraordinary Memoir of Escape, Survival, And Heroism In The Last Days OF World War II, by Henry Langrehr and Jim DeFelice This book is somewhat extraordinary in that it is the most restrained book … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Shipbuilder’s Wife

Posted on September 3, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Shipbuilder’s Wife, by Jennifer Moore This is a very skilled romance set during the War of 1812, and it presents a plot whose driving force appears to be the unwillingness of the two main characters to trust each other … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Wave Of Destruction

Posted on March 16, 2020 by nathanalbright

Wave Of Destruction:  The Stories Of Four Families And History’s Deadliest Tsunami, by Erich Krauss It is easy to have compassion on the subjects of this book, as they represent the sort of Thai person I knew well when I … Continue reading →

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Book Review: To No Man’s Glory

Posted on June 12, 2019 by nathanalbright

To No Man’s Glory:  A Child’s Journey From Holocaust To Healing:  A Memoir, by Vincent (Arturs Lejnieks) Benson with Victoria Harnish Benson I must admit that I am no stranger to this sort of memoir.  In the larger sense of … Continue reading →

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A Discourse On The Changes Of The Nature Of Prey Animals In The Millennium

Posted on February 25, 2019 by nathanalbright

As is my custom, even when I am busy during services taking notes on the computer for our congregation’s deaf and hard of hearing members, I tend to think about the messages that I hear and often find material worthy … Continue reading →

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The Trace Of Our Tears

Posted on December 25, 2018 by nathanalbright

There are some things that are a mystery when you are on the ground but which can become far more visible when looked at from a great distance.  For example, when one looks from the sky or from space, it … Continue reading →

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Movie Review: Operation Finale

Posted on September 5, 2018 by nathanalbright

Around a decade or so ago I won some free tickets to a World War II chase movie that was, as these things go, based on a true story.  In watching this film, I felt a similar set of complex … Continue reading →

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