About Chelsea Olivia Follett
Past Imperfect seeks to shatter rose-colored views of the past and deromanticize the world our ancestors inhabited. With historical research and data, the articles and other writings here aim to inform the reader about what life was really like in the days of yore.
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What Is Past Imperfect and Who Are You?
I’m Chelsea Follett, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute and managing editor of Human Progress, a Cato Institute project dedicated to documenting the improving state of the world (please check out their Substack, Doomslayer, as well).
I’m also the author of the book, Centers of Progress: 40 Cities That Changed the World (2023).