Is Time Out Of Joint?

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the futureâ€"and their relationship to the presentâ€"been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has...