The "Key Posts" link in navigation at the top of my blog lists all important posts through the end of 2016. Along with "2017's Most Popular Posts," “2018's Most Popular Posts” and “2019'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.) Continuing this tradition, I give links to the most popular posts in the first half of 2020 below into six groups: popular new posts in 2020 on diet and health, popular new posts in 2020 on political philosophy, popular new posts in 2020 on other topics, and popular older posts in those three categories. (However, the set of new posts in the first half of 2020 on political philosophy with 100 or more pageviews is the empty set.) I provide the pageviews in the first half of 2020 for each post as counted when someone went specifically to that post.

I am pleased to be able to report 331,250 Google Analytics pageviews in the first half of 2020—over 55,000 pageviews per month. Of these, 17,264 were pageviews for my blog homepage. One other thing that stands out from the data is how well my back catalog does because of Google search.

New Posts in 2020 on Diet and Health

1. The New England Journal of Medicine Review of the Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging and Disease 3,092

2. Can Fasting Help Fight the Coronavirus? 732

3. The Case Against Monosodium Glutamate—Why MSG is Dangerous (as are Other Sources of Free Glutamate) and How the Dangers Have Been Covered Up 571

4. Getting More Vitamin D May Help You Fight Off the New Coronavirus 467

5. Eating During the Coronavirus Lockdown 193

6. Fasting Before Feasting 155

7. Fasting Helps Avoid Collateral Damage in Fighting Bacterial Infections; Glucose Helps Avoid Collateral Damage in Fighting Viral Infections 138

8. Too Much of Any Amino Acid is Probably Bad for You, But Monosodium Glutamate Isn't Any Worse Than That 129

9. Interactions between COVID-19 and Chronic Diseases 117

10. Sugar Is Not Very Satiating 102

New Posts in 2020 on Other Topics

1. How Does This Pandemic End? 2,805

2. Avoiding Economic Carnage from the Coronavirus: There are Better Policies than Sending Everyone $1000 1,252

3. Logarithms and Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to the Coronavirus Pandemic 934

4. Why Housing is So Expensive 741

5. On the Herd Immunity Strategy 341

6. Two Dimensions of Pandemic-Control Externalities 320

7. Responding to Negative Coverage of Negative Rates in the Financial Times 285

8. Seconding Paul Romer's Proposal of Universal, Frequent Testing as a Way Out 278

9. The Supreme Court Confronts the Principles of Multivariable Calculus in Extending Employment Protections to Gay and Transgender Employees 273

10. Why We are Likely to Need Strong Aggregate Demand Stimulus after Tight Social Distancing Restrictions are Over 266

11. Enablers of White Supremacy 256

12. Glennon Doyle on Wild Humanity 242

13. Narayana Kocherlakota Advocates Negative Interest Rates Now 240

14. How Even Liberal Whites Make Themselves Out as Victims in Discussions of Racism 238

15. Vicky Biggs Pradhan: How Crises Make Us Rethink Our Lives 218

16. 'The Four Agreements' by Don Miguel Ruiz (with Janet Mills) and `The Fifth Agreement' by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz (with Janet Mills) 217

17. Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz: Self-Driving Cars, Tolls, and Carpooling are Much More Powerful as a Combination than Separately 216

18. Miles Kimball's Discussion of "When to Release the Lockdown: A Wellbeing Framework for Analysing Benefits and Costs," by Layard, Clark, De Neve, Krekel, Fancourt, Hey and O'Donnell 213

19. Bex's Rules for Life 204

20. How to Fight Global Warming 198

21. 4 Types of Heterogeneity that Offer a Bit of Extra Hope for Keeping the Pandemic Under Control without Blanket Lockdowns 195

22. Vicky Biggs Pradhan: The Lost Art of Curiosity 192

23. The Wisdom of Jerome Powell 147

24. The Mormon Church's Counterpart to a Sovereign Wealth Fund 146

25. Frank Wilczek: Are We Living in a Simulated World? 144

26. Marc Lipsitch: The New Coronavirus May Be Worse Than You Think (link post) 136

27. Michael Lind: College-Educated vs. Not is the New Class War 136

28. My Experiences with Clay Christensen 131

29. The ECB’s Monetary Policy at 20—Massimo Rostagno, Carlo Altavilla, Giacomo Carboni, Wolfgang Lemke, Roberto Motto, Arthur Saint Guilhem and Jonathan Yiangou Defend Negative Rate Policy 130

30. How Dating Apps Are Making Marriages Stronger 129

31. COVID-19 Math: Why Just 2 Months of Extreme Isolation Alone Probably Won't End the Epidemic—Katrina Ligett and Aviv Zohar 128

32. Adam McCloskey and Pascal Michaillat: Calculating Incentive Compatible Critical Values Points to a t-Statistic of 3 as the 5% Critical Value after Accounting for p-Hacking 125

33. On Human Potential 123

34. Recognizing Opportunity: The Case of the Golden Raspberries—Taryn Laakso 101

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Diet and Health

1. Reexamining Steve Gundry's `The Plant Paradox’ 36,313

2. Which Nonsugar Sweeteners are OK? An Insulin-Index Perspective 24,857

3. Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid 23,475

4. How Fasting Can Starve Cancer Cells, While Leaving Normal Cells Unharmed 10,751

5. Why a Low-Insulin-Index Diet Isn't Exactly a 'Lowcarb' Diet 7,991

6. Whole Milk Is Healthy; Skim Milk Less So 5,598

7. Evidence that High Insulin Levels Lead to Weight Gain 2,671

8. Obesity Is Always and Everywhere an Insulin Phenomenon 2,529

9. Using the Glycemic Index as a Supplement to the Insulin Index 2,405

10. What Steven Gundry's Book 'The Plant Paradox' Adds to the Principles of a Low-Insulin-Index Diet 1,963

11. Stop Counting Calories; It's the Clock that Counts 1,812

12. In Praise of Flavored Sparkling Water 1,239

13. Miles Kimball on Diet and Health: A Reader's Guide 1,142

14. Intense Dark Chocolate: A Review 1,116

15. 3 Achievable Resolutions for Weight Loss 1,038

16. Exorcising the Devil in the Milk 993

17. My Annual Anti-Cancer Fast 972

18. Jason Fung's Single Best Weight Loss Tip: Don't Eat All the Time 859

19. Meat Is Amazingly Nutritious—But Is It Amazingly Nutritious for Cancer Cells, Too? 723

20. The Case Against Sugar: Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes 688

21. Jason Fung: Dietary Fat is Innocent of the Charges Leveled Against It 658

22. The Keto Food Pyramid 603

23. Our Delusions about 'Healthy' Snacks—Nuts to That! 570

24. David Ludwig: It Takes Time to Adapt to a Lowcarb, Highfat Diet 568

25. Why You Should Worry about Cancer Promotion by Diet as Much as You Worry about Cancer Initiation by Carcinogens 546

26. Layne Norton Discusses the Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes Debate (a Debate on Joe Rogan’s Podcast) 543

27. Lisa Drayer: Is Fasting the Fountain of Youth?

28. Don't Tar Fasting by those of Normal or High Weight with the Brush of Anorexia 496

29. The Four Food Groups Revisited 469

30. The Problem with Processed Food 453

31. Letting Go of Sugar 453

32. 'Is Milk Ok?' Revisited 450

33. Carola Binder—Why You Should Get More Vitamin D: The Recommended Daily Allowance for Vitamin D Was Underestimated Due to Statistical Illiteracy 440

34. My Giant Salad 428

35. On Exercise and Weight Loss 428

36. 4 Propositions on Weight Loss 418

37. Best Health Guide: 10 Surprising Changes When You Quit Sugar 396

38. How Sugar, Too Much Protein, Inflammation and Injury Could Drive Epigenetic Cellular Evolution Toward Cancer 359

39. Good News! Cancer Cells are Metabolically Handicapped 355

40. On 'Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Understanding and Applying Health Benefits of Fasting' by Stephen D. Anton et al. 354

41. Kevin D. Hall and Juen Guo: Why it is So Hard to Lose Weight and So Hard to Keep it Off 302

42. Anthony Komaroff: The Microbiome and Risk for Obesity and Diabetes 294

43. Sugar as a Slow Poison 292

44. A Low-Glycemic-Index Vegan Diet as a Moderately-Low-Insulin-Index Diet 277

45. Vindicating Gary Taubes: A Smackdown of Seth Yoder 271

46. Yes, Sugar is Really Bad for You 253

47. How Important is A1 Milk Protein as a Public Health Issue? 252

48. Which Is Worse for You: Sugar or Fat? 241

49. Live Your Life So You Don't Need Much Self-Control 233

50. After Gastric Bypass Surgery, Insulin Goes Down Before Weight Loss has Time to Happen 230

51. Mass In/Mass Out: A Satire of Calories In/Calories Out 213

52. Andreas Michalsen on Fasting 212

53. Increasing Returns to Duration in Fasting 207

54. Salt Is Not the Nutritional Evil It Is Made Out to Be 200

55. Nutritionally, Not All Apple Varieties Are Alike 196

56. The Trouble with Most Psychological Approaches to Weight Loss: They Assume the Biology is Obvious, When It Isn't 185

57. Eggs May Be a Type of Food You Should Eat Sparingly, But Don't Blame Cholesterol Yet 181

58. Diseases of Civilization 179

59. How Low Insulin Opens a Way to Escape Dieting Hell 173

60. A Barycentric Autobiography 151

61. Black Bean Brownies 139

62. The Case Against the Case Against Sugar: Seth Yoder vs. Gary Taubes 137

63. In Praise of Avocados 130

64. Is Milk OK? 126

65. Nina Teicholz on the Bankruptcy of Counting Calories 120

66. How Sugar Makes People Hangry 110

67. Data on Asian Genes that Discourage Alcohol Consumption Explode the Myth that a Little Alcohol is Good for your Health 109

68. Freakonomics: The Story of Bananas 100

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Political Philosophy

1. The Social Contract According to John Locke 26,958

2. John Locke: Freedom is Life; Slavery Can Be Justified Only as a Reprieve from Deserved Death 2,025

3. On John Locke's Labor Theory of Property 1,675

4. John Locke on Why the Executive and Legislative Power Should Be Separated, but the Executive and Foreign Policy Power Should Be Combined 1,511

5. John Locke on Punishment 1,399

6. John Locke's Argument for Majority Rule 1,138

7. John Stuart Mill's Brief for Freedom of Speech 1,083

8. John Locke's Argument for Limited Government 914

9. John Locke: The Only Legitimate Power of Governments is to Articulate the Law of Nature 915

10. Liberty and the Golden Rule 819

11. John Locke's State of Nature and State of War 815

12. John Stuart Mill’s Vigorous Advocacy of Education Vouchers 785

13. Governments Long Established Should Not—and to a Good Approximation Will Not—Be Changed for Light and Transient Causes 686

14. John Locke: When the Police and Courts Can't or Won't Take Care of Things, People Have the Right to Take the Law Into Their Own Hands 650

15. John Locke: Legitimate Taxation and other Appropriation of Property by the Government is Limited as to Quantity, Procedure and Purpose 581

16. Freedom Under Law Means All Are Subject to the Same Laws 575

17. John Stuart Mill on Freedom from Religion 568

18. John Locke: The Public Good 492

19. Cass Sunstein on the Rule of Law 432

20. John Locke: People Must Not Be Judges in Their Own Cases 416

21. John Locke: Government by the Consent of the Governed Often Began Out of Respect for Someone Trusted to Govern 411

22. John Locke on the Equality of Humans 378

23. John Locke's Smackdown of Robert Filmer: Being a Father Doesn't Make Any Man a King 362

24. On the Achilles Heel of John Locke's Second Treatise: Slavery and Land Ownership 354

25. John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Thought 352

26. John Locke on Legitimate Political Power 349

27. John Locke: Democracy, Oligarchy, Hereditary Monarchy, Elective Monarchy and Mixed Forms of Government 329

28. John Locke: How to Resist Tyrants without Causing Anarchy 301

29. John Stuart Mill on Balancing Christian Morality with the Wisdom of the Greeks and Romans 298

30. John Stuart Mill: In the Parent-Child Relationship, It is the Children Who Have Rights, Not the Parents 281

31. John Stuart Mill’s Roadmap for Freedom 279

32. John Locke: We Are All Born Free 270

33. The Metaphor of a Nation as a Family 267

34. John Stuart Mill on Sins of Omission 261

35. John Locke Against Natural Hierarchy 241

36. John Locke Treats the Bible as an Authority on Slavery 233

37. Democracy is Not Freedom 230

38. John Stuart Mill: In Praise of Eccentricity 230

39. John Stuart Mill on the Protection of "Noble Lies" from Criticism 224

40. John Locke Against Tyranny 221

41. John Stuart Mill: Two Maxims for Liberty 218

42. John Locke: How to Recognize a Tyrant 218

43. John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Contract 216

44. An Experiment with Equality of Outcome: The Case of Jamestown 209

45. Brian Flaxman—Bern Notice: Why Bernie Sanders is the Best Candidate to Take on Donald Trump in 2020 208

46. John Locke: The Right to Enforce the Law of Nature Does Not Depend on Any Social Contract 196

47. John Locke: Defense against the Black Hats is the Origin of the State 193

48. Getting Away with Doing Good 193

49. John Stuart Mill's Brief for Individuality 191

50. Democratic Injustice 189

51. John Stuart Mill’s Defense of Freedom 182

52. John Locke: No One is Above the Law, which Must Be Established and Promulgated and Designed for the Good of the People; Taxes and Governmental Succession Require Approval of Elected Representatives 181

53. Social Liberty 180

54. John Locke Off Base with His Assumption That There Was Plenty of Land at the Time of Acquisition 176

55. John Stuart Mill on the Sources of Prejudice About What Other People Should Do 169

56. John Locke: The Obligation to Obey the Law Does Not Apply to Laws Promulgated by Invaders and Usurpers Who Do Not Have the Consent of the Governed 157

57. On Despotism 156

58. John Stuart Mill on the Gravity of Divorce 155

59. John Locke on the Supremacy of the People, the Supremacy of the Legislature over the Executive, and the Power of the Executive to Deal with Rotten Boroughs 139

60. John Locke Explains 'Lord of the Flies' 137

61. John Stuart Mill on Puritanism 133

62. John Locke: Theft as the Little Murder 132

63. John Stuart Mill on the Historical Origins of Liberty 131

64. John Stuart Mill’s Brief for the Limits of the Authority of Society over the Individual 129

65. John Stuart Mill on Public and Private Actions 128

66. John Stuart Mill on the Rich and the Elite 126

67. John Locke: The Law Must Apply to Rulers, Too 122

68. John Locke: By Natural Law, Husbands Have No Power Over Their Wives 121

69. John Locke: Lions and Wolves and Enemies, Oh My 117

70. John Locke and the Share of Land

71. John Stuart Mill on Rising Above Mediocrity 115

72. Michael Huemer's Immigration Parable 114

73. John Locke: The People are the Judge of the Rulers 112

74. John Locke: The Law of Nature Requires Maturity to Discern 110

75. John Stuart Mill: How Laws Against Self-Harm Backfire 109

76. John Stuart Mill on Being Offended at Other People's Opinions or Private Conduct 109

77. Vigilantes in the State of Nature 109

78. The Federalist Papers #2 A: John Jay on the Idea of America 108

79. John Stuart Mill on the Chief Interest of the History of Mankind: The Love of Liberty and Improvement vs. Custom 103

80. John Stuart Mill: The Central Government Should Be Slow to Overrule, but Quick to Denounce Bad Actions of Local Governments 101

81. John Locke: If Rebellion is a Sin, It is a Sin Committed Most Often by Those in Power 101

82. The Rise and Fall of Venice 101

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Other Topics

1. The 7 Principles of Unitarian Universalism 5,480

2. William Strauss and Neil Howe's American Prophecy in 'The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny' 5,261

3. The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Short-Run Natural Interest Rate 1,601

4. Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Expansionary Monetary Policy Does Not Raise the Budget Deficit 1,534

5. William Graham Sumner, Social Darwinist 1,523

6. Adding a Variable Measured with Error to a Regression Only Partially Controls for that Variable 1,365

7. The Logarithmic Harmony of Percent Changes and Growth Rates 1,216

8. Five Books That Have Changed My Life 933

9. 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" 846

10. Greg Shill: Does the Fed Have the Legal Authority to Buy Equities? 842

11. Joshua Foer on Deliberate Practice 814

12. The Descent—and the Divine Calling—of the Modernists 790

13. Why I Write 746

14. Government Purchases vs. Government Spending 734

15. The Complete Guide to Getting into an Economics PhD Program 703

16. 2019 First Half's Most Popular Posts 666

17. There Is No Such Thing as Decreasing Returns to Scale 642

18. Why Taxes are Bad 619

19. Supply and Demand for the Monetary Base: How the Fed Currently Determines Interest Rates 610

20. The Costs of Inflation 566

21. The Message of Mormonism for Atheists Who Want to Stay Atheists 525

22. Daniel Coyle on Deliberate Practice 516

23. On Teaching and Learning Macroeconomics 515

24. David Byrne: De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum 507

25. Q&A: Is Electronic Money the Mark of the Beast? 495

26. Expansionist India 491

27. An Agnostic Prayer for Strength 456

28. Reza Moghadam Flags 'Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions' in the Financial Times 455

29. A Liberal Turn in the Mormon Church 450

30. Noah Smith: Buddha Was Wrong About Desire 450

31. There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't 431

32. Robert Shiller: Against the Efficient Markets Theory 421

33. Shane Parrish on Deliberate Practice 391

34. David Pagnucco: The Eurozone and the Impossible Trinity 390

35. Returns to Scale and Imperfect Competition in Market Equilibrium 381

36. Netflix as an Example of Clay Christensen's 'Disruptive Innovation' 377

37. The Mormon View of Jesus 350

38. Why GDP Can Grow Forever 349

39. Fight the Backlash Against Retirement Saving Nudges: Everyone Benefits When People Save More for Old Age 345

40. Human Beings as Social—and Trading—Animals 342

41. Critical Reading: Apprentice Level 333

42. Noah Smith: You Are Already in the Afterlife 332

43. What is a Supply-Side Liberal? 298

44. How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide 287

45. Q&A on the Idea of a US Sovereign Wealth Fund 263

46. The Deep Magic of Money and the Deeper Magic of the Supply Side 248

47. Even Central Bankers Need Lessons on the Transmission Mechanism for Negative Interest Rates 246

48. Student Guest Posts on supplysideliberal.com 233

49. What to Call the Very Rich: Millionaires, Vranaires, Okuaires, Billionaires and Lakhlakhaires 232

50. The Most Effective Memory Methods are Difficult—and That's Why They Work 230

51. Co-Active Coaching as a Tool for Maximizing Utility—Getting Where You Want in Life 228

52. Cognitive Economics 226

53. On Having a Thesis 223

54. The Volcker Shock 220

55. Will Women Ever Get the Mormon Priesthood? 217

56. Negative Interest Rate Policy as Conventional Monetary Policy: Full Text 212

57. Marriage 101 206

58. How to Turn Every Child into a 'Math Person' 205

59. Franklin Roosevelt on the Second Industrial Revolution 199

60. On Master's Programs in Economics 189

61. Economics Needs to Tackle All of the Big Questions in the Social Sciences 180

62. Michael Weisbach: Posters on Finance Job Rumors Need to Clean Up Their Act, Too 178

63. Who Leaves Mormonism? 175

64. Rodney Stark on the Status of Women in Early Christianity 175

65. Two Types of Knowledge: Human Capital and Information 174

66. Why We Want More Jobs 170

67. What is the Effective Lower Bound on Interest Rates Made Of? 169

68. Christian Kimball on Middle-Way Mormonism 166

69. Will Your Uploaded Mind Still Be You? —Michael Graziano 163

70. Going Negative: The Virtual Fed Funds Rate Target 163

71. 18 Misconceptions about Eliminating the Zero Lower Bound 160

72. Deeper Learning in Macroeconomics 154

73. What Monetary Policy Can and Can't Do 153

74. The Shape of Production: Charles Cobb's and Paul Douglas's Boon to Economics 152

75. Hannah Katz: The Pros and Cons of Tipping Culture 150

76. Brio in Blog Posts 150

77. Markus Brunnermeier and Yann Koby's "Reversal Interest Rate" 148

78. Teleotheism and the Purpose of Life 147

79. The Unavoidability of Faith 144

80. The Mormon Church Decides to Treat Gay Marriage as Rebellion on a Par with Polygamy 143

81. Why I Am Not a Neoliberal 141

82. Clay Christensen, Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang on the Three Basic Types of Business Models 141

83. The Egocentric Illusion 131

84. How Subordinating Paper Currency to Electronic Money Can End Recessions and End Inflation 126

85. Silvio Gesell's Plan for Negative Nominal Interest Rates 122

86. Roger Farmer and Miles Kimball on the Value of Sovereign Wealth Funds for Economic Stabilization 120

87. Robert L. Woodson Sr. on Helping the Poor 117

88. Let's Set Half a Percent as the Standard for Statistical Significance 116

89. The Message of “Sal Tlay Ka Siti” 116

90. Charles Murray on Taking Religion Seriously 113

91. A Book of Mormon Story Every Mormon Boy and Girl Knows 113

92. Eric Weinstein: Genius Is Not the Same Thing as Excellence

93. Nicholas Kristof: "Where Sweatshops are a Dream" 111

94. When the Output Gap is Zero, But Inflation is Below Target 108

95. How the Original Sin of Borrowing in a Foreign Currency Can Reduce the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy for Both the Borrowing and Lending Country 107

96. In Honor of Alan Krueger 105

97. Ezra W. Zuckerman—On Genre: A Few More Tips to Academic Journal Article-Writers (link post to a pdf) 103

98. New Evidence on the Genetics of Homosexuality 102

99. Heroes of Science Action Figures 102

100. How and Why to Expand the Nonprofit Sector as a Partial Alternative to Government: A Reader’s Guide 100