Even given the longstanding urge of academics to treat Democratic presidents the way the Catholic Church once treated saints, the academic Left may have been a bit hasty when it rushed to canonize the current occupant of the White House.
The view of violent uprisings in the Middle East, and collateral threats in the United States, is a bit different in the Ivory Tower than it is closer to the action.
“Utopia: That’s more of an ideal than a reality.” Sally L. Kitch, professor of women and gender studies, Arizona State University at ASU symposium, “Are we losing our humanity?,” National Press Club, September 7, 2012.