Hey, We’re a Year Old!

By On March 3, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Blog Administration

 

Bleeding Heart Libertarians is one year old today!

When we started this blog a year ago, we never imagined it would take off in the way it did. In fact, a fair number of us probably never imagined that we’d see our first birthday.

As it turns out, though, the level and quality of engagement here has just blown us away. We don’t post as much as most other blogs – only 278 posts in the last year. But those posts generated close to half a million pageviews, and close to 9,000 comments. And, maybe I’m biased, but I think the quality of discussion in our comment thread is one of the best around.

So thanks to all of our readers for helping to make this blog a success. And thanks to Aira Loren Burkhart for designing our new logo!

We hope you’ll stay with us for the coming year. We’ve got exciting things planned, including our Symposium on Libertarianism and Land, some exciting new guest-bloggers, and a few more surprises that we’ll tell you about soon!

In the meantime, take a little trip down memory lane with our top five most-viewed posts:

  1. Steve Horwitz – How Did We Get Here? Or, Why Do 20 Year Old Newsletters Matter So Damn Much?
  2. Will Wilkinson – Why I Am Not a Bleeding Heart Libertarian
  3. Jason Brennan - Dear Left: Corporatism Is Your Fault
  4. Matt Zwolinski - “What Are You Going to Do With Your Gun?”
  5. Roderick Long - The Libertarian Three-Step Program 
 
  • eselpee

    Happy Birthday authors, commentators, and readers!

  • http://twitter.com/SpatialO Spatial Orientation

    My unabashed valentine to BHL on its one-year anniversary: Happy One-Year Anniversary to the Bleeding Heart Libertarians (http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-nashville/happy-one-year-anniversary-to-the-bleeding-heart-libertarians)

  • http://twitter.com/VelizCF CFV

    Congrats! (BTW, I really like the new logo) 

  • 3cantuna

    Thank you.

  • j_m_h

    Congratulations and here’s to many more to come!

  • http://frankhecker.com/ Frank Hecker

    Please allow me to offer my congratulations as well. Though not a libertarian myself, I’ve very much enjoyed reading (and occasionally commenting on) the blog, and look forward to a second year of posts. One thing I’d like to nominate for year two is a more in-depth discussion of the ideas in John Tomasi’s “Free Market Fairness” (which I’m reading now and finding quite accessible to the lay reader).

  • Michael Zigismund

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I’ve been following since the fall and I feel like I’m witnessing the making of history, however gradually. Congrats!