Nostalgia as a Political Force

Nostalgia as a Political Force

In today’s cultural climate, pride in your nation’s past, affection for stable communities, intact families and, God forbid, the institution of marriage, are all invariably renounced by the great and the good as symptoms of the pathology of nostalgia. What might once have been a harmless indulgence is now rebranded as a political pathology. It is regressive, delusional, dangerous—and if populism’s electoral wins are anything to go by, spreading.…