Stefan Zweig's beautiful book The world of yesterday. Memoirs of a European Remember and evoke, in 1941, when Nazism was on the verge of winning the war it had provoked, how much better the world was before the Great War, fascism, communism and Nazism, when there was faith in progress and humanity. Are we beginning to think like Stefan Zweig? Have we been so disoriented in recent weeks that we feel the vertigo that everything we had believed in will be frowned upon or even banned and persecuted?