Chelsea Olivia Follett

@chellivia

Managing Editor of & Policy Analyst. 2018 listee. , & alum. Views mine.

Washington, DC
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Joined February 2010
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    Mar 1

    Super thrilled to welcome 11 outstanding pro-liberty professionals to Young Voices' Board of Advisors!

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    Feb 24

    Gustavo is an intern for under . He is currently working on a project to measure and analyze different forms of global inequality over time. Learn more and apply at !

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    Feb 18

    Our 22nd edition of features Manchester during the first Industrial Revolution (1760-1850). Manchester helped to uplift humanity by paving the way to the post-industrial prosperity that so many of us now enjoy.

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    Feb 17

    LIFE EXPECTANCY IN POOR COUNTRIES The low-income countries of today had a life expectancy of 44 years back in 1970. What is it now? (You will find the correct answer and other related questions that you can share with your friends and family here: )

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    Feb 9

    Super excited to have written this, about how the pandemic is forcing medicine to adopt innovations that will give consumers more control over their healthcare.

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    Feb 4

    Our 21st edition of features Bologna, the city that pioneered the university model of higher learning as early as the eleventh century.

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    Feb 1

    Welcome to the new ! Our new website is not only a facelift, but includes a number of new features and usability improvements. Learn More:

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    Jan 18

    A history of NYtimes fretting about too much media consumption: TV 📺 ☞ Radio 📻 ☞ Books 📚 (via our substack post 'Too Much Too Much: )

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    Jan 16
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    I can get strawberries 24/7/365... how many humans in the history of the world could claim that?

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    Jan 16

    An illustration of how much wealthier we are today: Commonplace items like clocks and watches were once luxuries, possessed by ~2–3% of the population. Today, almost 70% of people have a pocket supercomputer, for which telling the time is the most basic of functions.

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    Jan 16

    “When people are free, they have more opportunity to prosper and lead happier, healthier lives,” said , vice president for international studies at the Cato Institute and co-author of the Human Freedom Index.

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    Jan 9

    People say inequality is rampant, but millions of ordinary people around the world received the vaccine before Queen Elizabeth II, including my grandparents & (through great fortune) me. Quite remarkable when you think about it.

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  13. Jan 7

    Forced sterilization does not promote gender equality. (Nor does it reduce resource scarcity, the more common justification that is given). It does, however, promote suffering.

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  14. Jan 7

    As the “cradle of liberty” and "birthplace of America", Philadelphia helped humanity to discover the benefits of liberal democracy.

    Our 19th edition of features Philadelphia, where the U.S. Declaration of Independence was signed and a new form of government was debated and put into practice.
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  15. Jan 7

    "We [at Cato] ... support the rule of law and the Constitution." via

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    Jan 4

    Er... wrong! A gallon of whole milk sells for $2.59 at Walmart. In the meantime, the hourly U.S. blue-collar wage rose from $5.56 in January 1977 to $24.87 in November 2020 (the last month measured). Want to learn more about falling food prices? Check out:

    Some 1977 predictions about the cost of living in 2021.
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    Jan 2

    Why do people reject openness when it leads to global benefits? explains the natural internal human debate between cooperation and nationalism from his new book, and discusses the book's relevance with

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    31 Dec 2020

    The 2000s so far: Open – and closed. Amazing progress – and a sharp reversal.

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    28 Dec 2020

    Someone called sliced bread a lazy fad, because of course they did (1935) 🍞 "These lazy sliced bread devotees are tantalizingly vague." 🍞 "We had thought the fad in time would wear itself out." (via our substack: )

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    28 Dec 2020

    2020 was not the worst year ever. Not even close, says

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