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This may be done from the best of motives, but it is shortsighted in the extreme — you might even say presentist.

“We can’t be presentist about this particular crime. That twinned marginalization is important to understand.”

For this generation’s presentist students, the course is a tough sell.

Another group argues that all historical films are presentist — they use the past to illuminate modern conundrums.

Lynch does, however, stress the presentist bias of Wikipedia entries: “Thomas Aquinas weighs in at just over 37,000 words on his life and major works; Michael Jackson warrants five times the space.”