From Postwar Despair to Pandemic Fear and Modern Conflict When T.S. Eliot published The Waste Land in 1922 he showed us a world that was broken. This was after the First World War. A hundred years later The Waste Land still makes sense to us. We just went through the COVID-19 pandemic. There are still a lot of tensions in the world especially in the Middle East. What T.S. Eliot wrote about back then seems real to us now. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55416/from-postwar-despair-to-pandemic-fear-and-modern-conflict