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Splitting the Atom - The Carbon Dioxide Atom
Give Me Decarbonization or Give Me Death
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
Language Acquisition and the Literary Geniuses
Lessons from Nabokov, Conrad, and the Divide Between Speech and Script
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
Saint and the Fraud: Why Ayaan Hirsi Ali Deserves the Feminist Crown and Ilhan Omar Belongs on a Plane Back to Somalia
The fact that in Mahommedan law every woman must belong to a sole man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay…
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
Al Sharpton’s Unpaid Debts: Why Democrats’ 2028 Courtship Should Give Americans Pause
Black Privilege
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
The Californication of Colorado: Importing California’s Energy Folly and the Renewables Mirage
Wind and solar with a view
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
日本の聖パトリックデー
St. Patrick’s Day in Japan: How an Irish Holiday Conquered the World (and Dodged the Culture Wars)
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
Thomas Sowell’s theories applied to violent crime in Chicago
Thomas Sowell’s Uncomfortable Truth: Chicago’s Crime Crisis Is Cultural, "Not Systemic Racism"
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
The Myth of Random Violence
Lessons from Thomas Sowell on Crime's True Patterns
"The Origins of Totalitarianism" Hannah Arendt
The Banality of Evil
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
Flight Fever on the Potomac
Bottom-Up Innovation
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
Info Wars
The Perpetual Battle for Control of Information
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
Wager
The wages of Wager were famine, pestilence, destruction and death.
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
Invitation to a Conflagration
So many red flags; so little notice.
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
The Golden Boy's Golden Field Goal
A New Year's Amuse-Bouche
 • Icahnoclast: The Spike
The Spike
The Spike
Random thoughts on the subjects that the press distorts, outright lies about or ignores entirely. All writing is satirized for your protection and possible amusement. Masks optional.
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