Drawing upon the method of currere, the political present in the United States is analyzed historically and futuristically. The political present dervies from the 1950s Cold War and the 1960s civil rights and women's movements. Employing the psychoanalytic notion of Nachtraglichkeit, Pinar argues that U.S. educators (and U.S. education professors) are now the victims of displaced and deferred misogyny and racism. Pinar concludes with a call for self-mobilization and social reconstruction.