Archive - Past Passport

Blow Off an Insult Like a Stoic

Epictetus’s one-second rule.

13 hrs ago • Joseph Pickett

History Cured My Doom Scroll

I went 0-47,904 in online arguments. Then history handed me a mission.

Oct 9 • Joseph Pickett

Caesar Bought His Voters on Credit

And Rome paid him back.

Oct 7 • Joseph Pickett

How to See the Venus de Milo

Walk away from the Mona Lisa.

Oct 6 • Joseph Pickett

Rome Crushed Carthage and Lost the Republic

Rome's last rival was holding it together.

Oct 4 • Joseph Pickett

Tolstoy Had It All. And Hid a Rope From Himself

4 lessons from Anna Karenina.

Oct 2 • Joseph Pickett

September 2026

The Schoolteacher Who Got Pompey Killed

Caesar wept. Egypt paid.

Sep 29 • Joseph Pickett

Why Wedding Rings Go on the Left Hand

An Egyptian anatomy mistake, 1,850 years old

Sep 26 • Joseph Pickett

Caesar Was Right About Paris

The burned town beside Notre-Dame

Sep 25 • Joseph Pickett

The Mile Is 1,000 Roman Paces. So Why 5,280?

Blame an England tax law.

Sep 24 • Joseph Pickett

Why We Still Say Caesar's Name

Four moves that made him great.

Sep 20 • Joseph Pickett

Rome Never Measured Temperature

Greek physician Galen tried. It took 1,500 more years.

Sep 19 • Joseph Pickett

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