Fifty years ago, the George Lucas film “American Graffiti,” an homage to his high school days of cruising hot rods and ’50s rock music, revved up the age of nostalgia. People had already been pining ...

Think back to a fond time and place in your childhood — perhaps a stroll with a parent along a waved-washed beach. The memory is a happy (and likely idealized) one, but still tinged with the ...

Nostalgia sneaks up on you. One moment, you're mindlessly scrolling; the next, a blurry photo, a TV theme song, or a forgotten memory blindsides you. All of a sudden, you're smiling, maybe tearing up, ...

How vintage vehicles preserve memory, identity, and the timeless longing for what once was The past is never dead. It’s ...

Not long after Ronald Reagan first became president, the poet and musician Gil Scott-Heron recorded a single called “‘B’ Movie” that attributed the Gipper’s appeal to various factors, but most of all ...

When you look around and realize how dangerous, complicated, and exhausting the world has gotten, you can’t help but yearn for the good old days. Life seemed much simpler and far less messy in the ...

Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age. “Damn can you imagine being a human during the paleolithic age,” tweeted a self-described ...

Nostalgia is a powerful political tool. Wielding nostalgia for a bygone era — one that is invariably mischaracterized — is a favorite weapon for fascist movements (Make America Great Again), harking ...

Spotify’s latest personalised-playlists feature taps in to an unexploited listener emotion: nostalgia for things that haven’t ...