If K-12 teachers present the past primarily through the lens of the present, the public may lose faith in their ability to address history at all. Americans are losing faith in the ability of public ...

Liberal comedian Bill Maher roasted the woke concept of "presentism," where historical figures and events are judged in the prism of the present – further arguing against the oft-claimed leftist ...

In the philosophy of time, presentism is the belief that neither the future nor the past exists. The opposite of presentism is 'eternalism', which is a belief in things that are past and things that ...

Presentism is the view that only presently existing things exist. Actualism is the view that only actually existing things exist. Although these views have much in common, the position we take with ...

A brief history of historians’ chatter (“Two Cheers for Presentism” The Chronicle Review, August 23), may be instructive. David A. Bell, the Princeton history-professor son of a Harvard sociology ...

Presentism holds that only the present is real (so the past and future are not) The growing block theory holds that the past and the present are real (but the future is not) Eternalism holds that the ...

‘Presentism” is the practice of applying 2020 cultural expectations and values to some 18th- or 19th-century events we’d rather forget. “Presentism” is comfortable because it encourages a kind of ...

Having journeyed to journalism via academics and a PhD from the University of Florida, Renuka Bisht now has the great pleasure of working with the editorial page of TOI. As impressed as the next ...

Steve Haycox, in his Sept. 14 comment, wrote that one of the most common errors of historical reconstruction is what he calls "presentism," i.e., using present values and applying them to the past. I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I look deeper at the policies behind the headlines. American college campuses are apparently natural hosts for a variety of ...