Wirkman•com

The ’blog known as “Wirkman Netizen,” formerly at wirkman.net, has moved to these pages. Just click the Netizen link, above.

I also blog at The Lesson Applied and The Libertarian Standard.

Podcasting is a new feature of this site, though the start to regular publication has been rocky at best.

For the curious: “Wirkman” is the Friesian version of my Finnish last name. It is listed in the family book, from the 16th century. It is not my first name. Some wonder at this, question my use of it. Why dredge an odd name up from the distant past? It doesn’t seem so distant to me, so out-of-the-ordinary — when I wrote under the initials “TWV” for Liberty magazine, starting in the 1980s, what do you think that “W” stood for? Wit?

My last name, incidentally, is NOT “Netizen.” It is “Virkkala.” The “netizen” biz is just a name for a website.

I contribute to the comments sections of other blogs with the initials “TWV” or the name “Wirkman,” as it fits my mood. Or, perhaps, randomly.

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Top left: A relic of the past, near where I live. The building burned down not long ago. Top right: A deer and a fire hydrant. Middle right: Me. Unless you know me personally, call me Wirkman Virkkala. If we’ve been introduced, my full Christian name, or its Finnish shorter version, serves the simple naming function.

The blog “Wirkman Netizen” can be found by clicking the “Netizen” link, at top. Or click HERE for the the blog’s archive page.

Yes, I live in the only state of these United States of America to be named after a president of said federal union. I am not especially proud of this, but then I also think it no reason for either shame or pride to live where one lives.

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Made elsewhere (sites I visit):

Epicurean Philosophy Online Erik Anderson's expert Epicurean site

Hit and Run Reason's blog site, featuring Jesse Walker, Brian Doherty and many others

The Shrubbloggers The joint blog of Eric Dixon and Justin Stoddard

Ideas David Friedman's blog

Econlog Economists Arnold Kling, David Henderson and Bryan Caplan

Common Sense Paul Jacob's Common Sense radio show

Study Guides: American Philosophy Autodidact Project home for some important Roy Wood Sellars papers.

D.A. Ridgely

Mises Economics Blog Bloggers associated with the Mises Institute

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