Grim Old Days: A. Roger Ekirch’s At Day’s Close, Part 2
What was the world really like when nightfall meant fear, filth, and fire?
Chelsea Follett
The Human Progress Podcast | Ep. 60
Stephanie Murray: Promoting Parenthood in a Free Society
Stephanie Murray joins Chelsea Follett to discuss discourse around falling birth rates, the tension between pro-natalism and classical liberal values, and how it might be resolved.
Blog Post | Conservation & Biodiversity
This Earth Day, Progress for Our Species Protects Others
Humanity’s relationship with wildlife is being rewritten.
Blog Post | Environment & Pollution
Grim Old Days: Richard Hoffmann’s Environmental History of Medieval Europe
The myth of Europe's pristine preindustrial wilderness.
Grim Old Days: A. Roger Ekirch’s At Day’s Close, Part 1
Our ancestors battled fear, filth, and fatigue after nearly every sundown.
Blog Post | Water & Sanitation
Grim Old Days: Robert Muchembled’s Cultural History of Odours in Early Modern Times
Putrid smells were a defining feature of the past that is now largely forgotten.
The Human Progress Podcast | Ep. 58
Daniel Griswold: Global Trade Has Made Us Richer
Daniel Griswold, the former director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Trade Policy Studies, joins Chelsea Follett to discuss the true legacy of globalization.
Grim Old Days: Responses to Untimely Death in the Past
What did all-too-common child mortality mean to the people of history?