of course, 'best' is relative ...

Whenever I publish something to a larger audience (LRC, LvMI, TLE), I get a temporary upsurge in traffic to my website. This gets me looking over what's old or broken or stupid. Like cleaning up before guests visit.

Today's LRC article has prompted me to do now what I was planning to do next month, as a way to mark the first anniversary of this blog -- I've created a "best of lowercase liberty" page:

Best of ...

[2004] [2005]

July, 2004

Aren't I worth saving?

August

On Atheism, Agnosticism, and Faith

lefties

September

complementary material (re Gilligan)

3rd-world, uneducated, & primitive (ditto)

defense contractors (re Straw Men)

The Samsara Fallacy

essential to national security

the thing most feared

labels

more on labels

everything bad that begins with A

October

the C-word

grammatical inversion

look for the union label

economic illiteracy

November

signals to myself

signal interference

conspiracy theories

liberal anarchism

That Girl!

rising costs

Will the real fascists please stand up?

Thanksgiving & Private Property

The Ministry of Truth

December

where to begin? [to learn economics]

Let's put the X back in Xmas!

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January, 2005

Ivan Illich & Deschooling

Murray N. Rothbard, R.I.P.

dreams can be deceiving (re MLK2)

Monogamy vs. Integrity

the principal principle of principles

February

In Defense of Referencing Hitler

cigarette money

March

unemployed former philosophy major

fish-n-chips (w/ fries)

April

I like traffic lights

assertions & assumptions, arguments & fallacies

May

implied consent revisited

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(You can find longer pieces here.)

These are my more substantive posts -- little mini-essays that caught other people's attention or that I find myself linking back to often.