Note: this post has now been superseded by “2018's Most Popular Posts” at this link here.

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 the first half of 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 the first six months of 2018 according to Google Analytics. In that period, I had 129,326 pageviews total, with 21,651 pageviews on my blog homepage. 

New Posts in 2018 on Diet and Health

1. Stop Counting Calories; It's the Clock that Counts 2838

2. The Case Against Sugar: Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes 1844

3. Intense Dark Chocolate: A Review 1003

4. Why a Low-Insulin-Index Diet Isn't Exactly a 'Lowcarb' Diet 892

5. The Case Against the Case Against Sugar: Seth Yoder vs. Gary Taubes 806

6. How Fasting Can Starve Cancer Cells, While Leaving Normal Cells Unharmed 798

7. Is Milk OK? 645

8. Which Is Worse for You: Sugar or Fat? 573

9. Carola Binder—Why You Should Get More Vitamin D: The Recommended Daily Allowance for Vitamin D Was Underestimated Due to Statistical Illiteracy 558

10. A Barycentric Autobiography 428

11. The Problem with Processed Food 389

12. Carola Binder: The Obesity Code and Economists as General Practitioners 307

13. My Giant Salad 300

14. Why You Should Worry about Cancer Promotion by Diet as Much as You Worry about Cancer Initiation by Carcinogens 292

15. Hints for Healthy Eating from the Nurse's Health Study 283

16. Using the Glycemic Index as a Supplement to the Insulin Index 269

17. A Conversation with David Brazel on Obesity Research 260

18. Diseases of Civilization 253

19. How Sugar, Too Much Protein, Inflammation and Injury Could Drive Epigenetic Cellular Evolution Toward Cancer 232

20. The Heavy Non-Health Consequences of Heaviness 202

21. Our Delusions about 'Healthy' Snacks—Nuts to That! 173

22. Gary Taubes Makes His Case to Nick Gillespie: How Big Sugar and a Misguided Government Wrecked the American Diet 148

23. Magic Bullets vs. Multifaceted Interventions for Economic Stimulus, Economic Development and Weight Loss 139

24. Good News! Cancer Cells are Metabolically Handicapped 138

New Posts in 2018 on Other Topics

1. On Teaching and Learning Macroeconomics 1758

2. Marriage—Not for the Faint of Heart 815

3. The Shards of My Heart 454

4. Gabriela D'Souza on Failure in Learning Math 441

5. John Locke: Freedom is Life; Slavery Can Be Justified Only as a Reprieve from Deserved Death 429

6. On the Achilles Heel of John Locke's Second Treatise: Slavery and Land Ownership 410

7. Cousin Causality 346

8. John Locke and the Share of Land 343

9. John Locke: The Purpose of Law Is Freedom 328

10. Martin Feldstein Shows Too Little Imagination about How to Tame the US National Debt 316

11. On Rob Porter 310

12. On Being a Good Guy 306

13. Robert Barro: Tax Reform Will Pay Growth Dividends 305

14. On Perfectionism 305

15. My Organized-Tweet Stories, In Order of Popularity, in Their Flight from a Dying Storify to the Haven of Wakelet 300

16. Math Learning for Kids Who Have a Tough Time 296

17. Gauti Eggertsson, Ragnar Juelsrud and Ella Getz Wold: Are Negative Nominal Interest Rates Expansionary? 288

18. Critical Reading: Apprentice Level 280

19. Greg Ip: A Decade After Bear’s Collapse, the Seeds of Instability Are Germinating Again 264

20. 2017's Most Popular Posts 262

21. John Locke on Legitimate Political Power 260

22. Most of the Gender Wage Gap Stems from Inequality in the Household, Inequality in the Culture, and Hostile Workplaces 257

23. The Economist: Improvements in Productivity Need to Be Accommodated by Monetary Policy 257

24. The Partitioned Matrix Inversion Formula 251

25. Why We Want More Jobs 229

26. The Real Test of the December 2017 Tax Reform Will Be Its Long-Run Effect 200

27. Charles Murray on Taking Religion Seriously 191

28. Why America Needs Marvin Goodfriend on the Federal Reserve Board 176

29. Chris Kimball: Having a Prophet in the Family 147

30. The Social Contract According to John Locke 147

31. Tropozoics 141

32. John Locke: Thinking of Mothers and Fathers On a Par Undercuts a Misleading Autocratic Metaphor 140

33. Alexander Trentin Interviews Miles Kimball on Next Generation Monetary Policy 138

34. Martin A. Schwartz: The Willingness to Feel Stupid Is the Key to Scientific Progress 132

35. John Locke: The Law of Nature Requires Maturity to Discern 125

36. Ricardo Hausman: Tacit Knowledge Is a Key Component of Productivity; That Means Prosperity Depends on Allowing Skilled Immigration--Especially into Poor Countries 124

37. Sam Brown and Miles Kimball on Teleotheism 122

38. Glenn Hubbard on National Debt Ethics 116

39. The Argument that We Are Likely to Be Living Inside of a Computer Simulation 115

40. John Locke Explains 'Lord of the Flies' 108

41. David Holland on the Mormon Church During the February 3, 2008–January 2, 2018 Monson Administration 105

42. Shane Phillips: Housing and Transportation Costs Have Become a Growing American Burden 92

43. Relative Price Changes, 1997-2017 91

44. Economists' Open Letter Open Letter to President Trump and Congress Against Protectionism 91

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Diet and Health

1. Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid 4300

2. Obesity Is Always and Everywhere an Insulin Phenomenon 2217

3. Five Books That Have Changed My Life 1251

4. The Keto Food Pyramid 471

5. Jason Fung: Dietary Fat is Innocent of the Charges Leveled Against It 374

6. Meat Is Amazingly Nutritious—But Is It Amazingly Nutritious for Cancer Cells, Too? 249

7. Whole Milk Is Healthy; Skim Milk Less So 239

8. Salt Is Not the Nutritional Evil It Is Made Out to Be 171

9. Sugar as a Slow Poison 166

10. Mass In/Mass Out: A Satire of Calories In/Calories Out 93

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Other Topics

1. John Stuart Mill's Brief for Freedom of Speech 4209

2. William Graham Sumner, Social Darwinist 1563

3. The Logarithmic Harmony of Percent Changes and Growth Rates 1542

4. The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Short-Run Natural Interest Rate 985

5. The Complete Guide to Getting into an Economics PhD Program (with Noah Smith) 917

6. Why Taxes are Bad 899

7. Joshua Foer on Deliberate Practice 892

8. Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Expansionary Monetary Policy Does Not Raise the Budget Deficit 873

9. Why I Write 807

10. John Stuart Mill on Freedom from Religion 780

11. On John Locke's Labor Theory of Property 710

12. John Stuart Mill’s Vigorous Advocacy of Education Vouchers 652

13. Ezequiel Tortorelli: The Trouble with Argentina 641

14. Government Purchases vs. Government Spending 628

15. John Stuart Mill’s Defense of Freedom 588

16. How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide 577

17. There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't (with Noah Smith) 577

18. The Message of Mormonism for Atheists Who Want to Stay Atheists 538

19. The Descent—and the Divine Calling—of the Modernists 457

20. There Is No Such Thing as Decreasing Returns to Scale 451

21. Shane Parrish on Deliberate Practice 435

22. Daniel Coyle on Deliberate Practice 434

23. What is a Supply-Side Liberal? 409

24. John Stuart Mill's Brief for Individuality 409

25. On Master's Programs in Economics 385

26. John Locke on Punishment 384

27. What is the Effective Lower Bound on Interest Rates Made Of? 383

28. John Locke's State of Nature and State of War 367

29. An Agnostic Prayer for Strength 361

30. Robert Shiller: Against the Efficient Markets Theory 342

31. Japan's Move Toward a Sovereign Wealth Fund Policy 337

32. John Stuart Mill on Balancing Christian Morality with the Wisdom of the Greeks and Romans 283

33. How to Turn Every Child into a "Math Person" 280

34. The Shape of Production: Charles Cobb's and Paul Douglas's Boon to Economics 266

35. John Stuart Mill: In Praise of Eccentricity 246

36. Nicholas Kristof: "Where Sweatshops are a Dream" 241

37. Cognitive Economics 230

38. John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Thought 228

39. Matthew Shapiro, Martha Bailey and Tilman Borgers on the Economics Job Market Rumors Website 225

40. The Volcker Shock 220

41. John Stuart Mill: In the Parent-Child Relationship, It is the Children that Have Rights, Not the Parents 218

42. Why I Am Not a Neoliberal 214

43. Miles Kimball - Google Scholar Citations 211

44. Roger Farmer and Miles Kimball on the Value of Sovereign Wealth Funds for Economic Stabilization 209

45. Jeff Smith: More on Getting into an Economics PhD Program 199

46. Silvio Gesell's Plan for Negative Nominal Interest Rates 197

47. The Unavoidability of Faith 190

48. Karthik Muralidharan, Abhijeet Singh, and Alejandro J. Ganimian: Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India 189

49. The Deep Magic of Money and the Deeper Magic of the Supply Side 189

50. Franklin Roosevelt on the Second Industrial Revolution 187

51. John Locke on the Equality of Humans 184

52. Can Taxes Raise GDP? 183

53. John Locke: People Must Not Be Judges in Their Own Cases 178

54. On Having a Thesis 177

55. How Subordinating Paper Currency to Electronic Money Can End Recessions and End Inflation 173

56. John Stuart Mill on the Role of Custom in Human Life 173

57. International Finance: A Primer 169

58. John Stuart Mill’s Brief for the Limits of the Authority of Society over the Individual 167

59. Restoring American Growth: The Video 167

60. Expansionist India 166

61. Let's Set Half a Percent as the Standard for Statistical Significance 165

62. Brio in Blog Posts 164

63. Greg Shill: Does the Fed Have the Legal Authority to Buy Equities? 163

64. Contra John Taylor 163

65. Marriage 101 159

66. Noah Smith: You Are Already in the Afterlife 157

67. The Message of “Sal Tlay Ka Siti” 157

68. John Stuart Mill Applies the Principles of Liberty 156

69. Peter Conti-Brown's Takedown of Danielle DiMartino Booth's Book "Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America" 151

70. Freedom Under Law Means All Are Subject to the Same Laws 151

71. John Locke Treats the Bible as an Authority on Slavery 150

72. Marriage 102 149

73. 18 Misconceptions about Eliminating the Zero Lower Bound 148

74. Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Wages: A Debate Between Miles Kimball and Matthew Rognlie 148

75. The Costs and Benefits of Repealing the Zero Lower Bound...and Then Lowering the Long-Run Inflation Target 148

76. My Objective Function 140

77. Why I Am Not a Physicist 139

78. The Coming Transformation of Education: Degrees Won’t Matter Anymore, Skills Will 137

79. John Stuart Mill on Benevolent Dictators 134

80. John Stuart Mill on the Chief Interest of the History of Mankind: The Love of Liberty and Improvement vs. Custom 134

81. Economics Needs to Tackle All of the Big Questions in the Social Sciences 133

82. Electronic Money: The Powerpoint File 131

83. John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Contract 130

84. Is Taxing Capital OK? 130

85. Janet Adamy and Paul Overberg on Immobility in America 129

86. How Increasing Retirement Saving Could Give America More Balanced Trade 126

87. Michael Weisbach: Posters on Finance Job Rumors Need to Clean Up Their Act, Too 126

88. Alexander Trentin Interviews Miles Kimball about Establishing an International Capital Flow Framework 126

89. Heroes of Science Action Figures 125

90. Electronic Money: The Quiz 123

91. The Swiss National Bank May Need to Cut Its Target Rate Further Now That It Could Get In Trouble with the US If It Keeps Buying So Many Foreign Assets 118

92. John Stuart Mill on Public and Private Actions 115

93. Even Central Bankers Need Lessons on the Transmission Mechanism for Negative Interest Rates 115

94. An Underappreciated Power of a Central Bank: Determining the Relative Prices between the Various Forms of Money Under Its Jurisdiction 113

95. Rodney Stark: Historians Ought to Count—But Often Don’t 112

96. John Locke Pretends Land Ownership Goes Back to the Original Peopling of the Planet 112

97. How Albert Einstein Became a Celebrity 112

98. Noah Smith: Why Do Americans Like Jews and Dislike Mormons? 112

99. Student Guest Posts on supplysideliberal.com 110

100. Will Women Ever Get the Mormon Priesthood? 109

101. My Dad 107

102. Miles Moves to the University of Colorado Boulder 105

103. How I Became Optimistic 105

104. How the Romans Made a Large Territory 'Rome' 104

105. John Stuart Mill’s Roadmap for Freedom 104

106. Teleotheism and the Purpose of Life 104

107. Next Generation Monetary Policy 103

108. In Praise of Partial Equilibrium 102

109. Building Up With Grace 101

110. Rodney Stark on the Status of Women in Early Christianity 101

111. Why Thinking about China is the Key to a Free World 99

112. One of the Biggest Threats to America's Future Has the Easiest Fix 99

113. On the Great Recession 98

114. Why I am a Macroeconomist: Increasing Returns and Unemployment 96

115. Matt Waite: How I Faced My Fears and Learned to Be Good at Math 95

116. Two Types of Knowledge: Human Capital and Information 94

117. Jordan B. Peterson on the True Purpose of a University Education 93

118. Robert Eisler—Stable Money: The Remedy for the Economic World Crisis 93

119. Miles Kimball, Colter Mitchell, Arland Thornton and Linda Young-Demarco—Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity 92

120. America's Big Monetary Policy Mistake: How Negative Interest Rates Could Have Stopped the Great Recession in Its Tracks 92

121. The Supply and Demand for Paper Currency When Interest Rates Are Negative 88

122. The Government and the Mob 88