Tobias Becker

A sweeping reassessment of our longing for the past, from the rise of "retro" to the rhetoric of Brexit and Trump. Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity. Nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivialising the past and obscuring its ugly sides. In Yesterday, Tobias...