2018's Most Popular Posts
The "Key Posts" link at the top of my blog lists all important posts through the end of 2016. Along with "2017's Most Popular Posts," this is intended as a complement to that list. (Also, my most popular storified Twitter discussions are here, and you can see other recent posts by clicking on the Archive link at the top of my blog.) I put links to the most popular posts from 2018 below into four groups: popular new posts in 2018 on diet and health, popular new posts in 2018 on other topics, and popular older posts in those two categories.
I am no stranger to bragging; however, I give statistics not to brag, but because I am a data hound. I would love to see corresponding statistics from other blogs that I follow! The numbers shown are pageviews in 2018 according to Google Analytics. In that period, I had 313,231 pageviews total, of which 42,241 were pageviews for my blog homepage.
New Posts in 2018 on Diet and Health
How Fasting Can Starve Cancer Cells, While Leaving Normal Cells Unharmed 7034
Why a Low-Insulin-Index Diet Isn't Exactly a 'Lowcarb' Diet 5707
What Steven Gundry's Book 'The Plant Paradox' Adds to the Principles of a Low-Insulin-Index Diet 3038
The Case Against Sugar: Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes 2594
Using the Glycemic Index as a Supplement to the Insulin Index 2469
Is Milk OK? 1374
The Case Against the Case Against Sugar: Seth Yoder vs. Gary Taubes 1028
My Giant Salad 774
Best Health Guide: 10 Surprising Changes When You Quit Sugar 483
Carola Binder: The Obesity Code and Economists as General Practitioners 347
Which Nonsugar Sweeteners are OK? An Insulin-Index Perspective 324
Jason Fung's Single Best Weight Loss Tip: Don't Eat All the Time 241
Anthony Komaroff: The Microbiome and Risk for Obesity and Diabetes 206
Heidi Turner, Michael Schwartz and Kristen Domonell on How Bad Sugar Is 141
How Important is A1 Milk Protein as a Public Health Issue? 117
Michael Lowe and Heidi Mitchell: Is Getting ‘Hangry’ Actually a Thing? 68
New Posts in 2018 on Other Topics
John Locke: Freedom is Life; Slavery Can Be Justified Only as a Reprieve from Deserved Death 2285
On the Achilles Heel of John Locke's Second Treatise: Slavery and Land Ownership 1226
The Most Effective Memory Methods are Difficult—and That's Why They Work 606
Cousin Causality 407
On Perfectionism 348
Martin Feldstein Shows Too Little Imagination about How to Tame the US National Debt 340
A Conversation with Clint Folsom, Mayor of Superior, Colorado 332
On Rob Porter 327
The Economist: Improvements in Productivity Need to Be Accommodated by Monetary Policy 296
John Locke's Smackdown of Robert Filmer: Being a Father Doesn't Make Any Man a King 280
Greg Ip: A Decade After Bear’s Collapse, the Seeds of Instability Are Germinating Again 270
Netflix as an Example of Clay Christensen's 'Disruptive Innovation' 262
Why America Needs Marvin Goodfriend on the Federal Reserve Board 238
John Ioannidis, T. D. Stanley and Hristos Doucouliagos: The Power of Bias in Economics Research 225
Why Donald Trump's Support Among Republicans Has Solidified 224
The Real Test of the December 2017 Tax Reform Will Be Its Long-Run Effects 210
John Locke: The Law of Nature Requires Maturity to Discern 194
Eric Weinstein: Genius Is Not the Same Thing as Excellence 188
Tropozoics 179
John Locke: Thinking of Mothers and Fathers On a Par Undercuts a Misleading Autocratic Metaphor 179
David Holland on the Mormon Church During the February 3, 2008–January 2, 2018 Monson Administration 162
Martin A. Schwartz: The Willingness to Feel Stupid Is the Key to Scientific Progress 162
Alexander Trentin Interviews Miles Kimball on Next Generation Monetary Policy 155
John Locke: By Natural Law, Husbands Have No Power Over Their Wives 153
John Locke: Defense against the Black Hats is the Origin of the State 128
The Argument that We Are Likely to Be Living Inside of a Computer Simulation 122
Economists' Open Letter Open Letter to President Trump and Congress Against Protectionism 110
John Locke: The Only Legitimate Power of Governments is to Articulate the Law of Nature 109
Equality Before Natural Law in the Face of Manifest Differences in Station 105
Shane Phillips: Housing and Transportation Costs Have Become a Growing American Burden 102
The US Military Needs to Beef Up Its Artificial Intelligence and Cyberware Capabilities 95
John Locke Argues for the Historicity of Social Contracts 94
Stephen Williamson on an Inverted Yield Curve as a Harbinger of Recession 86
Steven Pinker on Transhumanism, Means-End Rationality and Cultural Appropriation 81
Walker Wright on the Mormon Church's Relatively Enlightened Stance on Immigration 69
The Religious Duty to Care about the Welfare of All Human Beings 63
John Locke on the Importance of Established, Well-Publicized Laws 55
Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Diet and Health
Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid 18808
Key Posts 2507
Jason Fung: Dietary Fat is Innocent of the Charges Leveled Against It 868
Meat Is Amazingly Nutritious—But Is It Amazingly Nutritious for Cancer Cells, Too? 801
Debating 'Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid' 45
Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Other Topics
There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't (with Noah Smith) 3266
The Logarithmic Harmony of Percent Changes and Growth Rates 2954
How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide 1767
The Complete Guide to Getting into an Economics PhD Program (with Noah Smith) 1845
The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Short-Run Natural Interest Rate 1725
Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Expansionary Monetary Policy Does Not Raise the Budget Deficit 1661
Why I Write 1454
Why Taxes are Bad 1404
John Stuart Mill’s Vigorous Advocacy of Education Vouchers 1336
The Message of Mormonism for Atheists Who Want to Stay Atheists 1267
What is the Effective Lower Bound on Interest Rates Made Of? 679
Roger Farmer and Miles Kimball on the Value of Sovereign Wealth Funds for Economic Stabilization 586
John Stuart Mill on Balancing Christian Morality with the Wisdom of the Greeks and Romans 563
Economics Needs to Tackle All of the Big Questions in the Social Sciences 529
Returns to Scale and Imperfect Competition in Market Equilibrium 510
Freedom Under Law Means All Are Subject to the Same Laws 504
The Shape of Production: Charles Cobb's and Paul Douglas's Boon to Economics 480
Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Wages: A Debate Between Miles Kimball and Matthew Rognlie 459
John Locke: People Must Not Be Judges in Their Own Cases 459
An Experiment with Equality of Outcome: The Case of Jamestown 403
Let's Set Half a Percent as the Standard for Statistical Significance 396
Matthew Shapiro, Martha Bailey and Tilman Borgers on the Economics Job Market Rumors Website 384
John Stuart Mill’s Brief for the Limits of the Authority of Society over the Individual 361
The Coming Transformation of Education: Degrees Won’t Matter Anymore, Skills Will 329
Greg Shill: Does the Fed Have the Legal Authority to Buy Equities? 313
Michael Weisbach: Posters on Finance Job Rumors Need to Clean Up Their Act, Too 312
Bret Stephens and Paul Krugman: What Should a Correction Look Like in the Digital Era? 311
The Deep Magic of Money and the Deeper Magic of the Supply Side 309
Silvio Gesell's Plan for Negative Nominal Interest Rates 293
How Subordinating Paper Currency to Electronic Money Can End Recessions and End Inflation 273
Jeff Smith: More on Getting into an Economics PhD Program 266
Noah Smith: Why Do Americans Like Jews and Dislike Mormons? 258
18 Misconceptions about Eliminating the Zero Lower Bound 245
Why Scott Fullwiler Misses the Point in ‘Why Negative Nominal Interest Rates Miss the Point’ 238
John Stuart Mill on the Protection of ‘Noble Lies’ from Criticism 232
Rodney Stark on the Status of Women in Early Christianity 219
After Crunching Reinhart and Rogoff's Data, We Found No Evidence High Debt Slows Growth 213
Social Liberty 210
One of the Biggest Threats to America's Future Has the Easiest Fix (with Noah Smith) 199
Marriage 102 195
Why I am a Macroeconomist: Increasing Returns and Unemployment 194
My Dad 192
Christian Kimball on the Fallibility of Mormon Leaders and on Gay Marriage 191
Marriage 101 189
Even Central Bankers Need Lessons on the Transmission Mechanism for Negative Interest Rates 188
How Conservative Mormon America Avoided the Fate of Conservative White America . 177
How Increasing Retirement Saving Could Give America More Balanced Trade 172
Robert Eisler—Stable Money: The Remedy for the Economic World Crisis 169
John Stuart Mill on Being Offended at Other People's Opinions or Private Conduct 157
Barack Obama: Football as the Best Sports Analogy for Politics 153
‘The Hunger Games’ Is Hardly Our Future--It's Already Here 152
Godless Religion 149
John L. Davidson on Resolving the House Mystery: The Institutional Realities of House Construction 149
Isaac Sorkin: Don't Be Too Reassured by Small Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage 146
Matt Waite: How I Faced My Fears and Learned to Be Good at Math 145
Jordan B. Peterson on the True Purpose of a University Education 143
Fields Medal Winner Maryam Mirzakhani's Slow-Cooked Math 143
The Supply and Demand for Paper Currency When Interest Rates Are Negative 142
John Locke Pretends Land Ownership Goes Back to the Original Peopling of the Planet 138
When the Output Gap is Zero, But Inflation is Below Target 138
John Stuart Mill's Argument Against Political Correctness 138
Benjamin Franklin's Strategy to Make the US a Superpower Worked Once, Why Not Try It Again? 135
Owen Nie: Monetary Policy in Colonial New York, New Jersey and Delaware 126
How and Why to Expand the Nonprofit Sector as a Partial Alternative to Government: A Reader’s Guide 124
John Stuart Mill on the Need to Make the Argument for Freedom of Speech 116
Markus Brunnermeier and Yann Koby's ‘Reversal Interest Rate’ 116
Jing Liu: Show Kids that Solving Math Problems is Like Being a Detective 113
Leveling Up: Making the Transition from Poor Country to Rich Country 111
Annie Atherton: I Tried 7 Different Morning Routines — Here’s What Made Me Happiest (link post) 108
Glenn Ellison's New Book: Hard Math for Elementary School 106
Bruce Bartlett on Careers in Economics and Related Fields 105
Christian Kimball: Anger [1], Marriage [2], and the Mormon Church [3] 104
Janet Yellen is Hardly a Dove—She Knows the US Economy Needs Some Unemployment 104
The Mormon Church Decides to Treat Gay Marriage as Rebellion on a Par with Polygamy 103
Amy Morin and Steven Benna: 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do (link post) 102
John Locke: Law Is Only Legitimate When It Is Founded on the Law of Nature 101
Top 52 All-Time Posts and All My Columns Ranked by Popularity, as of May 23, 2014 101
Gather ’round, Children, Here’s How to Heal a Wounded Economy 99
So What If We Don't Change at All…and Something Magical Just Happens? 98
How Freedom of Speech for Falsehood Keeps the Truth Alive 97
John Stuart Mill on the Sources of Prejudice About What Other People Should Do 94
The Wrong Side of Cobb-Douglas: Matt Rognlie’s Smackdown of Thomas Piketty Gains Traction 87
Clay Shirky: Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away 86
Bruce Greenwald: The Death of Manufacturing & the Global Deflation 86
John Locke: Rivalry in Consumption Makes Private Property Unavoidable 85
Bret Stephens Issues a Correction: ‘About Those Income Inequality Statistics’
Brian Flaxman: Yes! Economics Did Sway Obama Voters to Trump 80
How to Stabilize the Financial System and Make Money for US Taxpayers 80
The Importance of the Next Generation: Thomas Jefferson Grokked It 78
John Stuart Mill: Making the Government More Powerful than Necessary is Inimical to Freedom 77
John Locke Looks for a Better Way than Believing in the Divine Right of Kings or Power to the Strong 77