Please, columnists and pop editorial writers, learn another plague to misuse and give medievalists a break from your nonsense.
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It's more that these sorts of 'just so' historical analogies where the present moment is exactly like a specific past moment tend to be lazy and intellectually shallow. Past events are useful to think with, useful to compare with, but history doesn't repeat.
I'd say it's more important to think historically, or to think *with* history about present events, than to try to engage in 1-to-1 comparisons with past events, as a lot of lazy 'new black death' articles (or a lot of 'Is America the new Rome' articles) often do.
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Absolutely, but that's the beginning of the question - and the answer only the beginning of knowledge. To many 'think pieces' treat it as the end!
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