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White Paper: Evidence That Would Support or Contradict “Coulter’s Law” in Crime Reporting

Executive summary “Coulter’s Law” is commonly described as a claim about delay: the longer it takes the news media to identify a perpetrator (often framed around mass shootings or notorious incidents), the less likely the perpetrator is to be a … Continue reading

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White Paper: Massive Textual Archives of the Ancient World: What We Have Deciphered, What Remains Locked, and What May Yet Be Found

Abstract Over the past 150 years, archaeology has uncovered immense textual archives from the ancient world—royal libraries, palace accounting systems, civic records, and religious corpora—many of which have been at least partly deciphered. Yet critical gaps remain: some writing systems … Continue reading

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White Paper: Toward a Biblical and Market-Rooted Business Curriculum: Training Principled Leaders for Free Enterprise and Responsible Citizenship

Executive Summary This white paper proposes the framework for a business school curriculum built on the dual pillars of biblical morality and a robust defense of free markets. The school aims to prepare graduates who are not only technically competent … Continue reading

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On The Relationship Between Systematic Theology and Having a Consistent Biblical Worldview

Systematic theology, while valuable for organizing and understanding biblical truths, can present certain pitfalls when it comes to maintaining a consistently biblical worldview. Here are some key challenges: 1. Imposing a Preconceived System on Scripture: 2. Overemphasis on Certain Doctrines … Continue reading

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Towards A General Framework Of Basin History

I recently read a book that purported to be a Pacific Ocean-based historical work of the West Coast of the United States that was written in contrast to the generally European-focused and Anglophile works of Atlantic history written by Bernard … Continue reading

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Book Review: Writing Family History Made Very Easy

Writing Family History Made Very Easy: A Beginner’s Guide, by Noeline Kyle This book is a bit frustrating to read for a variety of reasons, and there were a couple of things about this book that made it far less … Continue reading

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Book Review: The Genealogist’s Internet

The Genealogist’s Internet, by Peter Christian One thing that bothers me, and this is not so much an issue with the book as with the context in which I found it, is that my library stocks so many books about … Continue reading

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Book Review: Educated

Educated, by Tara Westover I have to admit that when I started reading this book that I was a bit concerned about the tack that it was going to take.  I figured that it was a given that the book … Continue reading

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Book Review: How To Write A Thesis

How To Write A Thesis, by Umberto Eco In many ways, this charming and relatively short guide to how to write a thesis is somewhat obsolete in that it was written in an age of card catalogs before word processing … Continue reading

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Book Review: Tracing Your European Roots

Tracing Your European Roots, by W. Daniel Quillen From time to time I enjoy reading about genealogy [1] and this particular book is part of a series that I was able to find in my library.  In starting this book … Continue reading

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