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 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. I provide the pageviews in 2020 for each post as counted when someone went specifically to that post.

I am pleased to be able to report 613,658 Google Analytics pageviews in 2020—over 50,000 pageviews per month. Of these, 31,480 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 5,380

2. Can Fasting Help Fight the Coronavirus? 5,236

3. James Nestor on How Bad Mouth Breathing Is 3,287

4. The Case Against Monosodium Glutamate—Why MSG is Dangerous (as are Other Sources of Free Glutamate) and How the Dangers Have Been Covered Up 786

5. Getting More Vitamin D May Help You Fight Off the New Coronavirus 559

6. Carbon Dioxide as a Stimulant for Respiratory Function 493

7. Have We Gone Too Far with Sunscreen? 394

8. Don't Drink Sweet Drinks Between Meals—Whether Sugary or with Nonsugar Sweeteners 356

9. Eating During the Coronavirus Lockdown 285

10. Fasting Before Feasting 274

11. Jane Brody on Intermittent Fasting 260

12. Fasting Helps Avoid Collateral Damage in Fighting Bacterial Infections; Glucose Helps Avoid Collateral Damage in Fighting Viral Infections 230

13. A Modern World of Endemic Jaw Dysfunction 228

14. The Surprising Genetic Correlation Between Protein-Heavy Diets and Obesity 220

15. Fasting Tips 200

16. Too Much of Any Amino Acid is Probably Bad for You, But Monosodium Glutamate Isn't Any Worse Than That 194

17. Interactions between COVID-19 and Chronic Diseases 155

18. Sugar Puts You in Greater Danger from Covid-19 137

19. Inducing Autophagy 133

20. Slate Star Codex on Saturated and Polyunsaturated Fat 130

21. Sugar Is Not Very Satiating 127

22. My Pillbox 123

23. Journal of the American College of Cardiology State-of-the-Art Review on Saturated Fats 118

24. Hope in Returning to the Road Not Taken in Psychiatry 109

25. Hypotheses about Salt and Blood Pressure 103

26. BJ Fogg's Tips for New Year's Resolutions 101

27. Human Skulls, Ancient and Modern 97

28. An Inexpensive Cold Sore Treatment That Doubles as an Antiseptic Towelette 97

29. On Minimalist Shoes 96

30. Potential Protective Mechanisms of Ketosis in Migraine Prevention 89

31. The New England Journal of Medicine Review of the Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging and Disease 88

New Posts in 2020 on Political Philosophy

1. The Federalist Papers #10 A: Conflicts Arising from Differences of Opinion Are an Inevitable Accompaniment of Liberty—James Madison 368

2. The Federalist Papers #20: The Weakness of the United Netherlands up to the 18th Century is Evidence for the Weakness of Confederations—Alexander Hamilton and James Madison 260

3. The Federalist Papers #9 A: There Has Been Technological Progress in Practical Principles of Republican Government—Alexander Hamilton 178

4. The Federalist Papers #10 B: The Larger the Republic, the Easier It is to Find Thoughtful Legislators and the Harder It is to Put Together a Majority to do Unjust Things—James Madison 148

5. The Federalist Papers #15: A Government, to be Worthy of the Name, Must Govern Its Citizens, Not Just Its Subordinate Jurisdictions—Alexander Hamilton 128

6. The Federalist Papers #6 B: Commercial Republics Also Start Wars with Their Neighbors—Alexander Hamilton 111

7. The Federalist Papers #14: A Republic Can Be Geographically Large—James Madison 109

8. The Federalist Papers #19: The Weakness of the German Empire, Poland and Switzerland up to the 18th Century is Evidence for the Weakness of Confederations—Alexander Hamilton and James Madison 104

9. The Federalist Papers #18: Alexander Hamilton and James Madison Point to the Weakness of Confederations of Cities in Ancient Greece to Argue for a Strong Federal Government 98

10. The Federalist Papers #7 A: Divided, the States Would Fall into Territorial Disputes Likely to Lead to War Between the States—Alexander Hamilton 91

11. The Federalist Papers #4 B: National Defense Will Be Stronger if the States are United 90

12. The Federalist Papers #21 B: Alexander Hamilton Complains of the Lack of a Measure Such as GDP Suitable for Apportioning Taxes to the States 86

New Posts in 2020 on Other Topics

1. How Does This Pandemic End? 2,877

2. How Economists Can Enhance Their Scientific Creativity, Engagement and Impact 1,671

3. Why Housing is So Expensive 1,554

4. Avoiding Economic Carnage from the Coronavirus: There are Better Policies than Sending Everyone $1000 1,335

5. Glennon Doyle on Wild Humanity 1,255

6. How Even Liberal Whites Make Themselves Out as Victims in Discussions of Racism 1,059

7. Logarithms and Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to the Coronavirus Pandemic 995

8. The Right Amount of Wokeness 992

9. 100 Economics Blogs and 100 Economists Who Are Influential Online 795

10. It Isn't OK to Be Anti-Immigrant 604

11. Taking Applications for a Full-Time Research Assistantship with the Well-Being Measurement Initiative—Miles Kimball, Dan Benjamin, Ori Heffetz and Kristen Cooper 556

12. Enablers of White Supremacy 471

13. Japan's Mysteriously Low COVID-19 Death Rate 468

14. On Human Potential 448

15. The Supreme Court Confronts the Principles of Multivariable Calculus in Extending Employment Protections to Gay and Transgender Employees 428

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) 408

17. Thinking about the 'Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping' 371

18. On the Herd Immunity Strategy 370

19. 2020 First Half's Most Popular Posts 370

20. Responding to Negative Coverage of Negative Rates in the Financial Times 368

21. Two Dimensions of Pandemic-Control Externalities 353

22. Bex's Rules for Life 346

23. How Perfectionism Has Made the Pandemic Worse 345

24. My Life will be Good When ... 336

25. The Moral Duty of Uplift (in David Brin's Sense) 330

26. Interstellar Travel and Uploaded Humans 320

27. Grace Wetzel: Orgasmic Inequality 313

28. Seconding Paul Romer's Proposal of Universal, Frequent Testing as a Way Out 297

29. Why We are Likely to Need Strong Aggregate Demand Stimulus after Tight Social Distancing Restrictions are Over 287

30. Narayana Kocherlakota Advocates Negative Interest Rates Now 283

31. The Fed Needs to be Ready to Go to Negative Rates and the Bank of Japan Needs to be Ready to Go Deeper Negative 267

32. Indoors is Very Dangerous for COVID-19 Transmission, Especially When Ventilation is Bad 262

33. Vicky Biggs Pradhan: How Crises Make Us Rethink Our Lives 255

34. 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 251

35. How the Nature of the Transmission Mechanism from Rate Cuts Guarantees that Negative Rates have Unlimited Firepower 249

36. 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 243

37. Vicky Biggs Pradhan: The Lost Art of Curiosity 236

38. How to Reduce Date Rape 234

39. Matt Adler's Critique of Methods Based on the Value of a Statistical Life 226

40. Michael Ostrovsky and Michael Schwarz: Self-Driving Cars, Tolls, and Carpooling are Much More Powerful as a Combination than Separately 223

41. Brian Flaxman—Bern Notice: Why Bernie Sanders is the Best Candidate to Take on Donald Trump in 2020 216

42. 4 Types of Heterogeneity that Offer a Bit of Extra Hope for Keeping the Pandemic Under Control without Blanket Lockdowns 214

43. How to Fight Global Warming 209

44. Frank Wilczek: Are We Living in a Simulated World? 198

45. The University of Colorado Boulder Deals with a Free Speech Issue 194

46. On Ex-Muslims 191

47. Michael Lind: College-Educated vs. Not is the New Class War 186

48. Dan Benjamin, Mark Fontana and Miles Kimball: Reconsidering Risk Aversion 179

49. How Dating Apps Are Making Marriages Stronger 176

50. The Mormon Church's Counterpart to a Sovereign Wealth Fund 176

51. Recognizing Opportunity: The Case of the Golden Raspberries—Taryn Laakso 166

52. Lumpers vs. Splitters: Economists as Lumpers; Psychologists as Splitters 162

53. On Policing: Roland Fryer, William Bratton, John Murad, Scott Thomson and the American People 161

54. The Wisdom of Jerome Powell 159

55. My Experiences with Clay Christensen 155

56. Eric Lonergan and Megan Greene: Dual Interest Rates Give Central Banks Limitless Firepower 155

57. Equality of Outcome 153

58. Scott Cunningham on Losing a Child 151

59. 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 149

60. Appropriately Dosed Rapamycin and Metformin Can Improve Immune Function and Seem to Be Partial Preventatives for COVID-19 139

61. COVID-19 Math: Why Just 2 Months of Extreme Isolation Alone Probably Won't End the Epidemic—Katrina Ligett and Aviv Zohar 138

62. June 2020 Covid-19 Science Roundup 138

63. Marc Lipsitch: The New Coronavirus May Be Worse Than You Think (link post) 137

64. America's Struggle 127

65. Michael Coe on Joseph Smith the Shaman 118

66. Getting the Best from Wokeness by Having the Right Mean, Reducing the Variance and Mitigating the Losses from Extreme Values 113

67. 'Everything Happens for a Reason' for Nonsupernaturalists 108

68. Pressure on the Fed from the Market and Trump for Negative Rates 102

69. Consensual, Non-Solipsistic Experience Machines 92

70. A Nonsupernaturalist Perspective on Meridians in Chinese Medicine 90

71. What Fraction of Participants in a Randomized Controlled Trial Should Be Treated? 90

72. Christian Kimball: Doubting Thomas 87

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Diet and Health

1. Reexamining Steve Gundry's `The Plant Paradox’ 58,073

2. Which Nonsugar Sweeteners are OK? An Insulin-Index Perspective 44,997

3. Forget Calorie Counting; It's the Insulin Index, Stupid 38,366

4. How Fasting Can Starve Cancer Cells, While Leaving Normal Cells Unharmed 18,025

5. Why a Low-Insulin-Index Diet Isn't Exactly a 'Lowcarb' Diet 16,636

6. Whole Milk Is Healthy; Skim Milk Less So 10,969

7. Obesity Is Always and Everywhere an Insulin Phenomenon 4,347

8. Evidence that High Insulin Levels Lead to Weight Gain 3,565

9. Using the Glycemic Index as a Supplement to the Insulin Index 3,314

10. Stop Counting Calories; It's the Clock that Counts 3,164

11. What Steven Gundry's Book 'The Plant Paradox' Adds to the Principles of a Low-Insulin-Index Diet 2,803

12. Miles Kimball on Diet and Health: A Reader's Guide 2,074

13. 3 Achievable Resolutions for Weight Loss 1,781

14. Intense Dark Chocolate: A Review 1,707

15. My Annual Anti-Cancer Fast 1,665

16. Exorcising the Devil in the Milk 1,650

17. Jason Fung's Single Best Weight Loss Tip: Don't Eat All the Time 1,375

18. In Praise of Flavored Sparkling Water 1,350

19. Jason Fung: Dietary Fat is Innocent of the Charges Leveled Against It 1,217

20. Meat Is Amazingly Nutritious—But Is It Amazingly Nutritious for Cancer Cells, Too? 1,201

21. The Keto Food Pyramid 1,069

22. The Case Against Sugar: Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes 1,004

23. Why You Should Worry about Cancer Promotion by Diet as Much as You Worry about Cancer Initiation by Carcinogens 976

24. Our Delusions about 'Healthy' Snacks—Nuts to That! 967

25. Layne Norton Discusses the Stephan Guyenet vs. Gary Taubes Debate (a Debate on Joe Rogan’s Podcast) 940

26. Lisa Drayer: Is Fasting the Fountain of Youth? 912

27. David Ludwig: It Takes Time to Adapt to a Lowcarb, Highfat Diet 870

28. Carola Binder—Why You Should Get More Vitamin D: The Recommended Daily Allowance for Vitamin D Was Underestimated Due to Statistical Illiteracy 797

29. Don't Tar Fasting by those of Normal or High Weight with the Brush of Anorexia 751

30. 4 Propositions on Weight Loss 725

31. My Giant Salad 717

32. 'Is Milk Ok?' Revisited 716

33. Letting Go of Sugar 703

34. The Problem with Processed Food 692

35. Best Health Guide: 10 Surprising Changes When You Quit Sugar 665

36. On Exercise and Weight Loss 662

37. The Four Food Groups Revisited 652

38. Good News! Cancer Cells are Metabolically Handicapped 593

39. Nutritionally, Not All Apple Varieties Are Alike 583

40. Sugar as a Slow Poison 567

41. How Sugar, Too Much Protein, Inflammation and Injury Could Drive Epigenetic Cellular Evolution Toward Cancer 562

42. On 'Flipping the Metabolic Switch: Understanding and Applying Health Benefits of Fasting' by Stephen D. Anton et al. 513

43. Anthony Komaroff: The Microbiome and Risk for Obesity and Diabetes 498

44. A Low-Glycemic-Index Vegan Diet as a Moderately-Low-Insulin-Index Diet 478

45. After Gastric Bypass Surgery, Insulin Goes Down Before Weight Loss has Time to Happen 470

46. Mental Retirement: Use It or Lose It—Susann Rohwedder and Robert Willis 466

47. How Important is A1 Milk Protein as a Public Health Issue? 463

48. Kevin D. Hall and Juen Guo: Why it is So Hard to Lose Weight and So Hard to Keep it Off 451

49. Yes, Sugar is Really Bad for You 443

50. Which Is Worse for You: Sugar or Fat? 417

51. Mass In/Mass Out: A Satire of Calories In/Calories Out 371

52. Vindicating Gary Taubes: A Smackdown of Seth Yoder 364

53. Salt Is Not the Nutritional Evil It Is Made Out to Be 354

54. Eggs May Be a Type of Food You Should Eat Sparingly, But Don't Blame Cholesterol Yet 312

55. Increasing Returns to Duration in Fasting 311

56. Cancer Cells Love Sugar; That’s How PET Scans for Cancer Work 303

57. The Trouble with Most Psychological Approaches to Weight Loss: They Assume the Biology is Obvious, When It Isn't 297

58. How Low Insulin Opens a Way to Escape Dieting Hell 294

59. Andreas Michalsen on Fasting 294

60. Diseases of Civilization 281

61. A Barycentric Autobiography 249

62. Black Bean Brownies 244

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

64. Is Milk OK? 231

65. The Case Against the Case Against Sugar: Seth Yoder vs. Gary Taubes 228

66. In Praise of Avocados 210

67. Freakonomics: The Story of Bananas 199

68. Biohacking: Nutrition as Technology 195

69. How Sugar Makes People Hangry 192

70. Is 10,000 Steps a Day More Than is Necessary for Health? 177

71. Nina Teicholz on the Bankruptcy of Counting Calories 176

72. Should the Typical Person be Restricting Salt Intake? 160

73. Data on Asian Genes that Discourage Alcohol Consumption Explode the Myth that a Little Alcohol is Good for your Health 153

74. How Not Getting Enough Sleep Messes You Up, Part 1 152

75. David Ludwig, Walter Willett, Jeff Volek and Marian Neuhouser: Controversies and Consensus on Fat vs. Carbs 140

76. A Conversation with David Brazel on Obesity Research 139

77. Critiquing `All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality with Low-Carbohydrate Diets' by Mohsen Mazidi, Niki Katsiki, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Naveed Sattar and Maciej Banach 133

78. Hints for Healthy Eating from the Nurses’ Health Study 130

79. Evidence that Gut Bacteria Affect the Brain 125

80. Eating on the Road 119

81. Carola Binder: The Obesity Code and Economists as General Practitioners 102

82. On the Epistemology of Diet and Health: Miles Refuses to `Stay in His Lane’ 98

83. Fighting the Common Cold 96

84. Maintaining Weight Loss 90

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Political Philosophy

1. The Social Contract According to John Locke 66,079

2. John Locke: Freedom is Life; Slavery Can Be Justified Only as a Reprieve from Deserved Death 3,901

3. John Locke on Why the Executive and Legislative Power Should Be Separated, but the Executive and Foreign Policy Power Should Be Combined 3,634

4. John Locke: The Purpose of Law Is Freedom 3,139

5. On John Locke's Labor Theory of Property 2,978

6. John Locke on Punishment 2,877

7. John Locke's Argument for Majority Rule 2,705

8. William Graham Sumner, Social Darwinist 2,568

9. John Locke: The Only Legitimate Power of Governments is to Articulate the Law of Nature 2,154

10. John Locke's Argument for Limited Government 1,728

11. Governments Long Established Should Not—and to a Good Approximation Will Not—Be Changed for Light and Transient Causes 1,664

12. Liberty and the Golden Rule 1,654

13. John Stuart Mill's Brief for Freedom of Speech 1,507

14. John Locke's State of Nature and State of War 1,419

15. John Locke: Legitimate Taxation and other Appropriation of Property by the Government is Limited as to Quantity, Procedure and Purpose 1,370

16. 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 1,362

17. John Stuart Mill’s Vigorous Advocacy of Education Vouchers 1,297

18. John Stuart Mill on Freedom from Religion 1,109

19. Freedom Under Law Means All Are Subject to the Same Laws 1,107

20. John Locke: The Public Good 1,000

21. John Locke: Defense against the Black Hats is the Origin of the State 961

22. Cass Sunstein on the Rule of Law 927

23. John Locke: People Must Not Be Judges in Their Own Cases 913

24. John Locke: Government by the Consent of the Governed Often Began Out of Respect for Someone Trusted to Govern 874

25. On the Achilles Heel of John Locke's Second Treatise: Slavery and Land Ownership 764

26. John Locke: Democracy, Oligarchy, Hereditary Monarchy, Elective Monarchy and Mixed Forms of Government 697

27. John Locke's Smackdown of Robert Filmer: Being a Father Doesn't Make Any Man a King 691

28. John Locke on the Equality of Humans 686

29. John Locke: How to Resist Tyrants without Causing Anarchy 671

30. John Locke on Legitimate Political Power 631

31. John Locke: We Are All Born Free 614

32. An Experiment with Equality of Outcome: The Case of Jamestown 566

33. The Metaphor of a Nation as a Family 555

34. John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Thought 547

35. Democracy is Not Freedom 536

36. John Stuart Mill’s Roadmap for Freedom 521

37. John Stuart Mill on Balancing Christian Morality with the Wisdom of the Greeks and Romans 512

38. Human Beings as Social—and Trading—Animals 507

39. John Stuart Mill on Sins of Omission 489

40. John Stuart Mill: In the Parent-Child Relationship, It is the Children Who Have Rights, Not the Parents 470

41. John Locke: The Law Must Apply to Rulers, Too 464

42. John Locke: How to Recognize a Tyrant 463

43. John Locke Against Natural Hierarchy 460

44. John Locke Against Tyranny 453

45. John Locke: The Right to Enforce the Law of Nature Does Not Depend on Any Social Contract 446

46. 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 433

47. John Stuart Mill on Running Other People’s Lives 428

48. 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 417

49. Democratic Injustice 413

50. John Locke Treats the Bible as an Authority on Slavery 413

51. John Locke: By Natural Law, Husbands Have No Power Over Their Wives 410

52. Social Liberty 405

53. On Despotism 403

54. Getting Away with Doing Good 395

55. John Stuart Mill: Two Maxims for Liberty 390

56. John Stuart Mill: In Praise of Eccentricity 387

57. John Locke Off Base with His Assumption That There Was Plenty of Land at the Time of Acquisition 382

58. Michael Huemer's Immigration Parable 378

59. John Locke Explains 'Lord of the Flies' 377

60. Michael Huemer's Libertarianism 367

61. John Stuart Mill on the Role of Custom in Human Life 367

62. John Locke: The People are the Judge of the Rulers 366

63. John Stuart Mill on Freedom of Contract 358

64. John Stuart Mill on the Protection of "Noble Lies" from Criticism 343

65. 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 342

66. John Locke: If Rebellion is a Sin, It is a Sin Committed Most Often by Those in Power 330

67. John Stuart Mill on Rising Above Mediocrity 281

68. John Stuart Mill on the Sources of Prejudice About What Other People Should Do 280

69. John Locke: Theft as the Little Murder 275

70. John Stuart Mill on the Gravity of Divorce 274

71. John Stuart Mill’s Defense of Freedom 273

72. John Locke on Monarchs (Or Presidents) Who Destroy a Constitution 266

73. John Locke and the Share of Land 252

74. The Federalist Papers #2 A: John Jay on the Idea of America 246

75. John Stuart Mill on Being Offended at Other People's Opinions or Private Conduct 237

76. John Stuart Mill's Brief for Individuality 234

77. John Stuart Mill on Puritanism 231

78. The Federalist Papers #1: Alexander Hamilton's Plea for Reasoned Debate 226

79. John Stuart Mill: How Laws Against Self-Harm Backfire 219

80. John Stuart Mill on the Rich and the Elite 212

81. John Stuart Mill on Benevolent Dictators 209

82. John Locke on the Mandate of Heaven 198

83. Vigilantes in the State of Nature 196

84. John Stuart Mill’s Brief for the Limits of the Authority of Society over the Individual 195

85. John Stuart Mill on the Historical Origins of Liberty 194

86. John Locke: Lions and Wolves and Enemies, Oh My 190

87. John Locke Looks for a Better Way than Believing in the Divine Right of Kings or Power to the Strong 189

88. John Stuart Mill on the Chief Interest of the History of Mankind: The Love of Liberty and Improvement vs. Custom 187

89. John Locke: The Law of Nature Requires Maturity to Discern 182

90. John Stuart Mill’s Defense of Freedom of Religion for Mormons as an Argument for Chartering Libertarian Enclaves 180

91. John Stuart Mill on Public and Private Actions 180

92. The Rise and Fall of Venice 178

93. John Stuart Mill: The Central Government Should Be Slow to Overrule, but Quick to Denounce Bad Actions of Local Governments 172

94. John Locke: Law Is Only Legitimate When It Is Founded on the Law of Nature 171

95. Edmund Burke's Wisdom 169

96. Paul Finkelman: The Monster of Monticello 165

97. The People Have the Right to Erect a New Government When the Previous Government Betrays the Trust It Has Been Given 164

98. John Locke: Property in the State of Nature 147

99. John Locke on Peace through Surrender to Tyranny 136

100. If the Justice System Does Not Try to Deliver Justice, We Are in a State of War 131

101. John Stuart Mill's Argument Against Political Correctness 128

102. John Stuart Mill: People Should Be Allowed to Govern Their Own Lives Because They Care More and Know More about Themselves Than Anyone Else Does 128

103. John Stuart Mill: We Are Ethically Responsible for the Harm We Do to Others, Even When That Harm Stems from First Doing Harm to Ourselves 127

104. John Stuart Mill on Humans vs. the Lesser Robots 127

105. John Stuart Mill on Having a Day of Rest and Recreation 125

106. John Locke: Usurpation is a Kind of Domestic Conquest, with this Difference, that an Usurper Can Never Have Right on His Side 125

107. John Locke: Rivalry in Consumption Makes Private Property Unavoidable 115

108. John Stuart Mill—The Great Temptation: Telling Others What to Do 114

109. John Stuart Mill Applies the Principles of Liberty 112

110. John Locke: An Unjust War Cannot Win Any True Right to Rule 109

111. John Stuart Mill on Other-Regarding Character Flaws (as Distinct from Self-Regarding Character Flaws) 109

112. John Stuart Mill on Raising the Next Generation 106

113. John Stuart Mill on China's Technological Lost Centuries 102

114. John Stuart Mill: Different Strokes for Different Folks 101

115. John Stuart Mill on the Need to Make the Argument for Freedom of Speech 98

116. The Free Market and Collective Liberty 94

117. Reparation and Deterrence 92

118. John Stuart Mill and C. S. Lewis on Originality 92

119. John Locke: Thinking of Mothers and Fathers On a Par Undercuts a Misleading Autocratic Metaphor 89

Older Posts with Continuing Popularity on Other Topics

1. The 7 Principles of Unitarian Universalism 9,217

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' 7,277

3. What to Call the Very Rich: Millionaires, Vranaires, Okuaires, Billionaires and Lakhlakhaires 3,153

4. The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Short-Run Natural Interest Rate 2,687

5. Adding a Variable Measured with Error to a Regression Only Partially Controls for that Variable 2,662

6. Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Expansionary Monetary Policy Does Not Raise the Budget Deficit 2,550

7. How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide 2,183

8. Joshua Foer on Deliberate Practice 1,572

9. Five Books That Have Changed My Life 1,545

10. The Logarithmic Harmony of Percent Changes and Growth Rates 1,543

11. Why I Write 1,321

12. An Optical Illusion: Nativity Scene or Two T-Rex's Fighting over a Table Saw? 1,297

13. The Complete Guide to Getting into an Economics PhD Program 1198

14. The Descent—and the Divine Calling—of the Modernists 1,186

15. There Is No Such Thing as Decreasing Returns to Scale 1,163

16. Government Purchases vs. Government Spending 1,096

17. Noah Smith: Buddha Was Wrong About Desire 1,065

18. 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" 1,006

19. Why Taxes are Bad 993

20. Greg Shill: Does the Fed Have the Legal Authority to Buy Equities? 967

21. Expansionist India 946

22. The Costs of Inflation 908

23. Supply and Demand for the Monetary Base: How the Fed Currently Determines Interest Rates 889

24. A Liberal Turn in the Mormon Church 848

25. Q&A: Is Electronic Money the Mark of the Beast? 831

26. The Message of Mormonism for Atheists Who Want to Stay Atheists 825

27. There's One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don't 772

28. David Byrne: De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum 771

29. Why GDP Can Grow Forever 768

30. Daniel Coyle on Deliberate Practice 755

31. An Agnostic Prayer for Strength 748

32. On Teaching and Learning Macroeconomics 732

33. 2019 First Half's Most Popular Posts 696

34. Robert Shiller: Against the Efficient Markets Theory 668

35. 2019's Most Popular Posts 664

36. Shane Parrish on Deliberate Practice 646

37. The Deep Magic of Money and the Deeper Magic of the Supply Side 637

38. David Pagnucco: The Eurozone and the Impossible Trinity 620

39. Returns to Scale and Imperfect Competition in Market Equilibrium 602

40. The Mormon View of Jesus 596

41. Netflix as an Example of Clay Christensen's 'Disruptive Innovation' 583

42. Noah Smith: You Are Already in the Afterlife 548

43. Reza Moghadam Flags 'Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions' in the Financial Times 534

44. What is a Supply-Side Liberal? 485

45. The Most Effective Memory Methods are Difficult—and That's Why They Work 456

46. Critical Reading: Apprentice Level 446

47. How to Turn Every Child into a 'Math Person' 433

48. Q&A on the Idea of a US Sovereign Wealth Fund 415

49. Co-Active Coaching as a Tool for Maximizing Utility—Getting Where You Want in Life 413

50. Deeper Learning in Macroeconomics 389

51. Cognitive Economics 367

52. Fight the Backlash Against Retirement Saving Nudges: Everyone Benefits When People Save More for Old Age 364

53. Even Central Bankers Need Lessons on the Transmission Mechanism for Negative Interest Rates 330

54. Will Your Uploaded Mind Still Be You? —Michael Graziano 328

55. How Subordinating Paper Currency to Electronic Money Can End Recessions and End Inflation 324

56. Franklin Roosevelt on the Second Industrial Revolution 320

57. The Volcker Shock 317

58. Christian Kimball on Middle-Way Mormonism 311

59. Will Women Ever Get the Mormon Priesthood? 301

60. Going Negative: The Virtual Fed Funds Rate Target 299

61. Negative Interest Rate Policy as Conventional Monetary Policy: Full Text 298

62. Clay Christensen, Jerome Grossman and Jason Hwang on the Three Basic Types of Business Models 282

63. The Shards of My Heart 280

64. Rodney Stark on the Status of Women in Early Christianity 270

65. Who Leaves Mormonism? 269

66. Ezra W. Zuckerman—On Genre: A Few More Tips to Academic Journal Article-Writers (link post to a pdf) 268

67. On Master's Programs in Economics 267

68. On Having a Thesis 265

69. Marriage 101 265

70. When the Output Gap is Zero, But Inflation is Below Target 263

71. 18 Misconceptions about Eliminating the Zero Lower Bound 258

72. Teleotheism and the Purpose of Life 258

73. The Unavoidability of Faith 257

74. Michael Weisbach: Posters on Finance Job Rumors Need to Clean Up Their Act, Too 250

75. The Shape of Production: Charles Cobb's and Paul Douglas's Boon to Economics 243

76. The Mormon Church Decides to Treat Gay Marriage as Rebellion on a Par with Polygamy 242

77. Hannah Katz: The Pros and Cons of Tipping Culture 241

78. Why I Am Not a Neoliberal 241

79. Student Guest Posts on supplysideliberal.com 239

80. What is the Effective Lower Bound on Interest Rates Made Of? 234

81. Economics Needs to Tackle All of the Big Questions in the Social Sciences 232

82. Let's Set Half a Percent as the Standard for Statistical Significance 231

83. The Message of “Sal Tlay Ka Siti” 221

84. How to Introduce the Next Generation to Literature 220

85. Markus Brunnermeier and Yann Koby's "Reversal Interest Rate" 213

86. Capuchin Monkeys Reject Unequal Pay 211

87. New Evidence on the Genetics of Homosexuality 209

88. Christof Koch: Will Machines Ever Become Conscious? 206

89. In Honor of Alan Krueger 203

90. The Egocentric Illusion 199

91. Charles Murray on Taking Religion Seriously 195

92. Why We Want More Jobs 195

93. Two Types of Knowledge: Human Capital and Information 193

94. Heroes of Science Action Figures 191

95. Eric Weinstein: Genius Is Not the Same Thing as Excellence 184

96. Godless Religion 183

97. Roger Farmer and Miles Kimball on the Value of Sovereign Wealth Funds for Economic Stabilization 182

98. Wrath of Gnon: Bringing Back to Mind How Traditional Technology Kept Buildings Comfortable before Air Conditioning and Central Heating 180

99. Chris Kimball: Having a Prophet in the Family 175

100. What Monetary Policy Can and Can't Do 173

101. How the Original Sin of Borrowing in a Foreign Currency Can Reduce the Effectiveness of Monetary Policy for Both the Borrowing and Lending Country 171

102. Silvio Gesell's Plan for Negative Nominal Interest Rates 170

103. Miles Moves to the University of Colorado Boulder 168

104. Andrew Carnegie on Cost-Cutting 168

105. Legitimate Power and Authority 165

106. Nicholas Kristof: "Where Sweatshops are a Dream" 163

107. The Coming Transformation of Education: Degrees Won’t Matter Anymore, Skills Will 162

108. Robert L. Woodson Sr. on Helping the Poor 162

109. A Book of Mormon Story Every Mormon Boy and Girl Knows 161

110. The Racist Origins of the Idea of the ‘Dumb Jock’ 161

111. Miles Kimball - Google Scholar Citations 160

112. How and Why to Expand the Nonprofit Sector as a Partial Alternative to Government: A Reader’s Guide 159

113. Brio in Blog Posts 158

114. Robert Eisler—Stable Money: The Remedy for the Economic World Crisis 158

115. My Objective Function 156

116. Next Generation Monetary Policy 152

117. Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Wages: A Debate Between Miles Kimball and Matthew Rognlie 152

118. My Proudest Moment as a Student in Ph.D. Classes 145

119. An Agnostic Grace 144

120. Can Taxes Raise GDP? 139

121. How I Became Optimistic 136

122. Chris Kimball on `A Liberal Turn in the Mormon Church' 131

123. Electronic Money: The Powerpoint File 131

124. Marriage 102 130

125. Division of Labor in Track-and-Hook Songwriting 129

126. Restoring American Growth: The Video 128

127. How Albert Einstein Became a Celebrity 126

128. Harvard 35th Reunion Profile: Miles Kimball 125

129. On the Great Recession 124

130. Dynamic Map of Europe from 1000 A.D. to 1900 124

131. Matthew Shapiro, Martha Bailey and Tilman Borgers on the Economics Job Market Rumors Website 121

132. Noah Smith: Sunni Islam is Failing 120

133. The Mystery of Consciousness 120

134. Selfishness and the Fall of Rome 119

135. Kenneth W. Phifer: Is Death Meaningful? 119

136. Why I am a Macroeconomist: Increasing Returns and Unemployment 115

137. Miles's April 9, 2006 Unitarian Universalist Sermon: ‘UU Visions’ 113

138. The Litany Against Fear 113

139. The K-12 Roots of Moral Relativism 112

140. Tom Gauld's Sympathy Cards for Scientists 112

141. How Did Evolution Give Us Religion? 111

142. The Virtual Reality Theory of Dualism 111

143. Italy's Supply-Side Troubles 111

144. Facebook Convo on Women in Economics 109

145. Thomas Sowell on How to Succeed as an Ethnic Minority 109

146. Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball—Enabling Deep Negative Rates to Fight Recessions: A Guide 109

147. Chris Kimball: The Language of Doubt 108

148. Leveling Up: Making the Transition from Poor Country to Rich Country 108

149. Noah Smith: Why Do Americans Like Jews and Dislike Mormons? 108

150. Matt Stoller: How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul 107

151. In Honor of Martin Weitzman 104

152. Against Narcissism 101

153. How to Handle Worries about the Effect of Negative Interest Rates on Bank Profits with Two-Tiered Interest-on-Reserves Policies 98

154. Bruce Bartlett on Careers in Economics and Related Fields 98

155. Flexible Dogmatism: The Mormon Position on Infallibility 98

156. ‘The Hunger Games’ Is Hardly Our Future--It's Already Here 98

157. How Conservative Mormon America Avoided the Fate of Conservative White America 97

158. Helicopter Drops of Money Are Not the Answer 96

159. On the Virtue of Self-Distraction 96

160. Signalling When Everyone Knows about Last-Place Aversion: An Application to Economics Job Market Rumors 95

161. An Agnostic Invocation 95

162. The Costs and Benefits of Repealing the Zero Lower Bound...and Then Lowering the Long-Run Inflation Target 93

163. Rodney Stark’s Contrarian Assessment of the Crusades 92

164. Scott Adams's Finest Hour: How to Tax the Rich 92

165. Ryan Silverman—$15 Federal Minimum Wage: Positive Intentions, Negative Results 91

166. Why I Am Not a Physicist 91

167. Wallace Neutrality Roundup: QE May Work in Practice, But Can It Work in Theory? 91

168. So What If We Don't Change at All…and Something Magical Just Happens? 91

169. My Dad 90

170. Annie Atherton: I Tried 7 Different Morning Routines — Here’s What Made Me Happiest (linkpost) 90

171. Less is More in Mormon Church Meetings

172. The Logarithmic Harmony of Percent Changes and Growth Rates 89

173. Eric Schlosser on the Underground Economy 88

174. How Mormon Scripture Declares the US Constitution to be the Work of God 87

175. Joshua Foer on Memory 87

176. The Path to Electronic Money as a Monetary System 87

177. On Being a Copy of Someone's Mind 86