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Steelmanning as a Memory Discipline: The Refusal of Laundering Turned Toward an Opponent

Posted on July 11, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. Steelmanning Defined The word is recent and slightly ugly, and it names an old thing badly. To steelman a position is to furnish it in its strongest documented form — the form its own ablest advocate would recognize and … Continue reading →

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The Charge to Enquire Wisely: Ecclesiastes 7:10 as a Rule of Method

Posted on July 11, 2026 by nathanalbright

I. The Charge Set Out The verse is brief, and its brevity has cost it. Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this. (Ecclesiastes 7:10) … Continue reading →

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Prolegomenon I — On the Inexhaustibility of a Familiar Subject

Posted on June 17, 2026 by nathanalbright

Part I. The Problem Stated: The Paradox of the Crowded Shelf Stand before any well-stocked shelf of American history and the Civil War will announce itself by sheer mass. The titles run to the thousands and then the tens of … Continue reading →

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White Paper 2: The Economics of Tuition-Free

Posted on May 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The University of the People advertises itself as tuition-free, and the phrase is both accurate and incomplete. It is accurate because the institution charges nothing for instruction, course materials, or enrollment; it is incomplete because students still pay per-course … Continue reading →

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White Paper 1: The Crisis Diagnosis and the Logic of the University of the People Response

Posted on May 30, 2026 by nathanalbright

Abstract The phrase “the crisis of higher education” names a mood more reliably than it names a problem. Beneath the single label sit at least seven distinct failures—cost and debt, access and equity, value skepticism, demographic enrollment decline, credential inflation, … Continue reading →

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Field Identity, Public Engagement, and Self-Critique: The Reflexive Commitments of Neglect Studies

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper concludes the series by addressing the questions that the preceding papers have deferred: what the field is to be called, how it should present itself to non-specialist audiences, how it should distinguish its work from adjacent … Continue reading →

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Engagement with Research-Governing Institutions: How Neglect Studies Works With the Bodies Whose Decisions It Studies

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the field’s engagement with the institutions whose decisions shape the distribution of scholarly attention: funding agencies, learned societies, journals, university administrations, government science advisory bodies, and international scientific organizations. The engagement is unavoidable because the … Continue reading →

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Data Infrastructure: Mapping the Negative Space

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the data infrastructure that neglect studies will require to function as a mature field. The premise is that a discipline whose central business is the systematic identification of underexplored questions cannot proceed on the basis … Continue reading →

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The Funding Ecosystem: Public, Private, and Philanthropic Pipelines for Neglect Studies

Posted on May 13, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the hardest practical problem the field faces: how a discipline whose central business is to study what institutional science neglects can secure funding from the same institutions whose attention patterns it exists to examine. The … Continue reading →

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Academic Infrastructure: Programs, Journals, Conferences, and Curricula for Neglect Studies

Posted on May 12, 2026 by nathanalbright

Executive Summary This paper addresses the academic infrastructure required to sustain neglect studies as a field: the institutional homes within universities, the publication outlets through which findings circulate and accumulate, the conferences at which scholars meet, and the curricula through … Continue reading →

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