No Apology for Nostalgia

Is there any dirtier word than “nostalgia”?

The problems with a politics of nostalgia are widely recognized. In “Blinded By Nostalgia,” Yuval Levin warns against the “grossly incomplete” pictures of the past with which we, in times of uncertainty, might try to stabilize our future. The longing for postwar America, for example, leaves little room for recalling the global and domestic unrest of that era.