
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 is the managing editor of HumanProgress.org, a policy analyst in the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, and author of the book Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World (2023).
What was the world really like when nightfall meant fear, filth, and fire?
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The Human Progress Podcast | Ep. 60
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.
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Blog Post | Conservation & Biodiversity
Humanity’s relationship with wildlife is being rewritten.
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Blog Post | Environment & Pollution
The myth of Europe's pristine preindustrial wilderness.
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Our ancestors battled fear, filth, and fatigue after nearly every sundown.
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Blog Post | Water & Sanitation
Putrid smells were a defining feature of the past that is now largely forgotten.
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The Human Progress Podcast | Ep. 58
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.
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What did all-too-common child mortality mean to the people of history?
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