Why Subscribe to Past Passport?
Your phone bombards you with horrible news every morning.
Debt, death, awful leaders, decline, corruption: all of it, in a 5G death loop.
Hard to unsee the negativity on that black rectangle in your hand.
It’s nothing new... only the technology is.
Here’s the upside: Ancient Romans worried about most of the same stuff 2,000 years ago.
So has everyone since the dawn of humankind.
You get it.
Past Passport is for people like you who understand that history changes, but humankind stays the same.
You know you’re not facing any bad news your ancestors didn’t survive. Your ancestors usually had a lot less than we did, and made it anyway.
Past Passport is enthusiastic about the future because we understand how brutally hard the past was.
Greece and Rome’s decline and fall, plagues, depressions, world wars, lack of medical care and technology…and people survived. Even prospered.
We aren’t PhD historians here; we’re curious non-experts who ask the questions you’d ask, then dig until we find real answers. No mind-numbing, boring dissertations, no jargon, nothing you need a post-graduate degree to grasp.
Past Passport analyzes history, art, culture, and current events to show that every generation thinks it’s facing the end times.
It never is.
AI is a reality for most of us, and Past Passport covers it too. We’re an open book on AI use. We use it for research, drafting, and video. The final product is ours. We share what we learn, including the mistakes. No technical expertise, just figuring it out as we go.
Join Past Passport on both journeys.
Remember: this is an entirely reader-supported publication.
To support Past Passport and get more of both journeys, consider a paid subscription. Here’s what you get:
Full-length essays, three times a week. History, art, ancient battles and dramatic events, culture, current events. We look at the odds our ancestors faced and came out the other side of, then bring that same proof to what you’re facing today.
The Stoics, applied. Marcus Aurelius wrote his own mind through chaos and collapse. We use the same tools against doomscrolling and the daily churn of bad news.
A monthly AI summary newsletter. How we used AI in the newsletter for the month and lessons learned. Apply these lessons to the content you’re creating.
The weekly AI diary. What we use for writing and video, what doesn’t work, what we learn.
The full archive. 145 history essays and counting, plus every AI piece, searchable whenever you want it.
A community of historical optimists. People who love history and stay optimistic about the future because of it, not despite the news cycle. That lens is how we read the past and how we plan for what’s next.
