present-minded

I was responding to the tendentious and present-minded character of your note above, both of which are problems in historical interpretation, though probably less so in law.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism 2010

And what happens when your textualist/originalist not only lacks the staggering erudition the terms evoke, but turns out to be a present-minded historian with a taste for Humpty Dumpty, declaring words to mean precisely what he intends them tomean?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism 2010

American politics tends to be local, present-minded and respond best when impacts are obvious and visible.

Steven Cohen: If The Cap Holds: The Long Term Political Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill 2010

I was responding to the tendentious and present-minded character of your note above, both of which are problems in historical interpretation, though probably less so in law.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Whitewashing Progressivism 2010

And what happens when your textualist/originalist not only lacks the staggering erudition the terms evoke, but turns out to be a present-minded historian with a taste for Humpty Dumpty, declaring words to mean precisely what he intends them tomean?

The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism 2010

American politics tends to be local, present-minded and respond best when impacts are obvious and visible.

Steven Cohen: If The Cap Holds: The Long Term Political Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill 2010

I always thought that lawyers — present-minded people mining the past for any snippet to use in a current argument, made very bad historians; apparently, linguists make even worse historians than do lawyers.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Spurious Grammatical “Rules” of Every Sort Are My Abhorrence 2009

"Being present-minded takes away some of that self-evaluation and getting lost in your mind -- and in the mind is where we make the evaluations that beat us up," says Stephen Schueller, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania.

Barbara Ficarra: Live in the Moment or Envision the Future? - How to Get Excited For Both 2009

Having waved away the lessons of history in the making of his decisions, the present-minded Bush doesn't seem to be concerned about his place in history.

April 2006 2006

This way of teaching may strike the resolute historical scholar as too "presentist," and the present-minded theorist as too "universalist."

The Decline and Fall of Literature Delbanco, Andrew 1999