Everything, Whenever, Wherever

Twice in the last day I've been chided for talking or writing about an old book or TV show. When this happened, I wondered, have we really become so now-centric that we can't discuss anything except what's brand new? Is there no room for going back and looking at something we may have missed the first time around?

And then it dawned on me. I wasn't being old-fashioned. They were. Today isn't about what's new. More than ever before (in my lifetime, anyway), it's no...