Any period you can think of as "the good old days," someone else can counter with a portion of society that was oppressed in those times. Nostalgia doesn't help us deal with the issues of now, says Yuval Levin.
He's the author of . Levin points to the problems inherent in thinking of ourselves as individuals above all else. He visited in 2016 to talk about his book, and we replay the interview here.