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Nostalgia

Radical Nostalgia

The notion of the “nostalgic American” served liberals as an ideal whipping boy at a time when the intellectual foundations of liberalism were beginning to erode. As the dogma of…

Only an Apocalypse Can Save Us Now

by Mark Lilla,

On the politics of nostalgia

Ad Absurdum

by Thomas Frank,

Suppose we decide to take a look at the Sixties from a fresh perspective. Suppose we start not with politicians, or soldiers in Vietnam, or civil rights protesters, or Woodstock…