Past Imperfect
Chelsea Olivia FollettShattering rose-colored views of the past.
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The Preindustrial Past Was a Horror Story
Halloween draws near, and it’s the season for scary stories. I have a true one for you. The gruesome reality of ordinary life throughout much of history, which is the subject of my new book, The Grim Old Days: An Introduction to the Preindu...
Modern Transportation Deserves Our Awe
Whether stuck in slow-moving traffic, coping with a flight delay, or sitting motionless in a metro car because of an unexpected obstruction on the tracks, it can be easy to feel frustrated that transportation is still fraught with such anno...
The Grim Old Days Book Launch
I’m very pleased to finally announce the details of the book launch event for The Grim Old Days (available for pre-order now). Emma Camp of the Wall Street Journal and Dominic Pino of the Washington Post will both speak at the book forum, c...
What If Smartphones Aren’t Killing Romance, but Saving It?
My husband and I met in the same academic building where my parents first met decades earlier as students.
When we recently returned to that spot around our 10th wedding anniversary, we joked with our children that if they attended the sam...
The Overpopulation Panic Dates Back to Odysseus’s Time
The Odyssey is giving today’s moviegoing audiences a glimpse into the myths of the distant past, but one of the most surprising ideas in the Homeric tradition feels decidedly modern: overpopulation.
In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was a...
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Human Progress, Research Fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity, author of the books Centers of Progress and The Grim Old Days.
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