Trump Is the New _____
Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct 24, 2017:
The coming age is shadowed on the past,
As on a glass.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1821
Every historian worries over presentism — the tendency for contemporary sentiment to distort the study of the past. Some call it projection. In graduate school, it’s teleology, or what the French historian Marc Bloch dubbed “the most unpardonable of sins: anachronism”…
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