Why Subscribe to Past Passport?
Your phone delivers you more bad news before breakfast than most people saw in a year, for most of history. Debt, bad leaders, decline, corruption: all of it, on a loop, hard to look away from.
That’s not new.
Romans worried about the exact same things. So did the people writing 2,000 years before them.
Past Passport is for people who feel the weight of the past and refuse to let it win. You’re not facing anything your ancestors didn’t survive, often with far less than you have.
I use history, art, culture, and current events to show that every generation thinks it’s the one that finally breaks, and it never is.
AI is a reality for most of us, and my newsletter covers it too. I’m an open book on AI. I use it for research and drafting. The final product is mine. I’ll share what I learn, including the mistakes. No technical expertise, just a writer figuring it out as he goes.
Join me on both journeys.
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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, 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.
The AI diary. What we use, what breaks, what we learn. No tutorial, just a real account from a writer with no technical background.
The full archive. 119 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.
