🧠 The History Present

The History Present was launched in January 2023, just weeks after the release of ChatGPT. Suddenly, content was everywhere. Structure was nowhere.

We saw the future clearly: AI would flood the world with information. But without history, without memory, none of it would mean anything.

We created THP to smash idols. To build meaning back in — not with nostalgia, but with discipline.

We don’t chase news. We build Historical Intelligence™ — a system for understanding the present through time.

The History Present is led by Eric Spitz, a media entrepreneur, writer, and strategist who’s spent the last 20 years watching the architecture of public conversation evolve — from inside the machine.

He’s owned and operated a major newspaper, advised governors and public companies, and helped reshape the national conversation around cannabis policy through editorials, campaign work, and public appearances.

Eric’s essays have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Los Angeles Times, and RealClearPolitics, where he is a regular contributor. He’s been a guest on CNN, CNBC, CBS News, and Yahoo Finance — often to discuss emerging industries and public perception. His company Narragansett Brewing Co. is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study, and he is the co-inventor of a U.S. patent for the Trakus tracking system used in sports worldwide.

He’s seen the information age from every side: editorial, operational, financial, and algorithmic.

That’s why The History Present exists — to build the kind of structure he knows the system forgot.

"I’ve built media companies. I’ve advised politicians. I’ve launched algorithms. And I can tell you this: if we don’t learn how to remember, the future will forget us.”

Each week, we drop a rhythm of essays and visuals designed to build memory, not just commentary.

Our work rotates through five enduring categories:

1. Memory & Morality – Justice, ethics, and legacy
2. Machine & Mind – AI, tools, and the history of cognition
3. Power & Performance – Sports, attention, entertainment, identity
4. Empire & Order – Collapse, law, governance, and reinvention
5. Design & Memory – Political branding, propaganda, visual culture

Monday - Premium Briefing - High-context editorial essay (paid only)

Tuesday - Series Essay - Longform, grounded in one or more categories

Wednesday - Visual/Quote Drop - Timeline, quote card, marginalia

Thursday - Series Day (Multi-Week Series) - Serialized, narrative-driven posts within ongoing thematic arcs

Friday - The Fifth Day Dispatch - Weekly digest + narrative send-off into the weekend

Comments are open to paid subscribers only — not as a gate, but as a filter for thoughtfulness.

We invite:

• Source-based contributions
• Contextual arguments
• Disagreement with structure

If you want to say “actually,” come with a citation.

This is not a feed. It’s a cohort of memory builders.

Free Subscribers get:

• Tuesday Series posts
• Wednesday Visuals / Quotes
• Friday Dispatch
• Digest previews and upgrade CTAs
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Paid Subscribers ($5.99/month or $50/year):

• Everything that Free Subscribers get
• Monday Premiums
• Thursday Multi-Week Series
• Comment access
• Full archive
• Access to co-authored longform with guest contributors
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Founding Members ($100/year):

• Early previews
• Private roundtables
• “Editor’s Dispatch” behind-the-scenes access

• Read “We are The Third Voice.” — our opening editorial
• Subscribe to get weekly structure, not just weekly content
• Join a growing network of thinkers who don’t want more noise — they want memory

We don’t break the news.

We don’t chase the trends.

We organize the present by curating the past.

Because if history doesn’t inform the feed, the feed will erase the archive.

This is The History Present.

You’re invited to remember.