Textbook bias: 80s and Reagan the loci of all our problems

[doctor_aquinas]

"At a time when ... the President of the United States can be an actor who once sold shirt collars, all the cultural signs are pointing to more illusions in our lives rather than fewer." (419

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[gritty_whitty]

And this may be why you and academia part ways sooner rather than later. A liberal bias represents one of the main failings of most colleges.

Reagan? A dunce.
Nixon? A villain.
FDR? A certifiable god-king!

While perspectivism cannot be escaped, only limited, an attempt would be helpful.

[doctor_aquinas]

Indeed. The best I can hope for is the chance to strike at it root and branch, Buckley-style. Which is why I'm assembling these references for a later (hopefully) critical essay.

It is nice, though, when you hit a bright spot. The other day someone in my history class called Nixon "dishonest," and the professor called him on it: "How so?" I don't think she's a conservative, but frankly it was just nice that she wouldn't let him get away with an easy, knee-jerk liberal response. Of course, the kid fumbled around trying to articulate what was for him a basic article of belief. "Uh... Well, uh, he..."

[doctor_aquinas]

Then I think he shouted something about Futurama.

[gritty_whitty]

That's unfair. In Futurama, it is just Nixon's head. You can't attribute the actions of one small part onto the whole.