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As someone working on a book about the history of nostalgia, I was thrilled to be interviewed for this aptly named podcast.
As we discuss, my take on what nostalgia is and how it functions politically depart a bit from how the host of the show has framed "the nostalgia trap."
Here's a recent blog post I wrote where I talk explicitly about the relationship between my first book on Paine (the ultimate, forward-looking modernist) and my second book on the backward-looking nostalgia that emerged in the 19th century. ageofrevolutions.com/2018/09/10/the…
