Hey, I’m C. Harwick, and I like cats. This is the part where I’m supposed to tell you that I’m passionate. Instead, I’d like to let my writings stand for themselves.
I’m stationed in Raleigh for the present, where I moved after graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Economics and Political Science. You’ll find among these pages…
Thoughts
I’m a Christian first. I believe in Christ’s bodily resurrection and the sovereignty of God (meticulous, if you care to know). Because of that faith, I advocate a separation between religion and government – for the sake of the Church more than the state. Economically I work for a free market, and politically towards microfederalism (a.k.a. competitive governance, agnarchy, or panarchy). And obviously, I believe my faith is compatible with my economic beliefs. Also, I don’t believe in intellectual property or natural rights as such.
My favorite books so far have been Desiring God by John Piper and Human Action by Ludwig von Mises, which represent the biggest influences on my thinking in the realms of theology and economics, respectively. If you’ve read one or both of those, you’ll have a good picture of the foundational ideas to the blog.
Writing
The blog is a way for me to work out in my own mind and in a coherent fashion thoughts that bounce around there in primitive and focused form. I make no pretensions that any of what I write is new to the face of the earth (though most of it is new and cool to me) or that I’m a good writer. Much of what I write may come across as dogmatic, but for the most part that is the sieve through which these ideas – mostly new – are refined and articulated. Though I’d love to convince people of one thing or another, my goal is mainly to consistently systematize the knowledge that’s been passed down and to apply that to the issues we face as a Church and as a society.
Posts are marked with a color, depending on the certainty with which they are written. There are 5 categories:
- Presentable Ideas: Written with complete confidence, which have gone through multiple revisions and are ready to see the world. These have the potential to make it to the Writings section.
- Fully Developed Ideas: Written with full confidence, but without revision.
- Rough Ideas: Written with good confidence, but open to revision later.
- Out on a Limb: Written undogmatically as a mental exercise.
- No Longer Reflective: Written with ideas I no longer hold to in their entirety.
Music
ambient black metal dark folk darkwave doom metal folk folk metal folk rock german gothic industrial medieval metal mittelalter neofolk post-rock
And more…
Random facts, you ask?
- I play the glockenspiel and some mean fooseball.
- Speaking of the glockenspiel, I have a folk metal band called Epta Astera.
- Martin Luther is one of my heroes.
- I like the Oxford Comma.
- I used to work summers as a camp counselor.
- Akismet has eaten 24,928 spams since it was activated in May 2007.
Anything else you’d like to know, and the contact form is just a click away.