"The Paradox of the Nostalgic Progressive"
April 08, 2013
A number of people have noted the strange phenomenon of some the-past-is-dead-change-is-always-good Progressives pining for the past, even for the 50s and early 60s. (For instance, I recommend Brink Lindsey's Paul Krugman's Nostalgianomics. A shorter, non-academic version is here.)
UPDATE: second link is fixed now.
And Ed Driscoll provides a nice, brief compilation.
(This fits, by the way, with an underappreciated theory for why Liberals currently are so angry. They're getting old.)