Travelling into the Past and Back

Over the past year politics seems to have returned to the past. But it is not clear whether it is a comeback to the Cold War time with its ideological intransigence, or the 19th century when some kindled the flames of revolutions and others sought to quench them, or to the time when people struggled not for national interests but for the triumph of true faith. It is quite remarkable that this “countdown” is taking place mainly in the Old World – Europe and the Middle East –...