Open for Business

At long last, I hereby return from the netherworld of data archival. Should I become unhumanly ambitious, perhaps my old posts kindly hosted at the former incarnation of Travis Bradshaw's site can be syndicated here. Until that time, the reader will receive full doses only of this new forum.

A word on the title: Anarkhos (an alternative spelling of the more common anarchos) is not the moniker of my supervillian alterego. It is a Greek word translated into English approximately as "without head or chief." I imagine that the majority of my comments will center on the theory and application of anarchocapitalism.

As one of those strange people who enjoys reading scholarly tomes in his free time, I consider myself an adherent to the Austrian School of economics. I particularly admire the contributions of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. From this angle, the content here will often be critical examinations of state activities and discussions on how a free market order can efficiently serve consumer wants. I enjoy reading libertarian-oriented legal perspectives such as those given by Professors Glen Whitman and Tom Bell at their site, but I lack the law school training and meticulous knowledge of caselaw needed to write that sort of thing.

And, when I'm in a really lazy mood, I occasionally write about everyday technical things such as Linux, GNOME, and whatever software things on which I happen to be engrossed at the moment.