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Depuis que Donald Trump a été élu Président des Etats-Unis, a déferlé dans les médias une vague d’articles dans lesquels sont faits des parallèles entre les nouvelles règles autocratiques de Trump et le monde ancien, et cela ne va pas sans poser quelques problèmes…
ince Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the USA, several articles have appeared in mainstream media in which journalists try to make parallels between Trump’s autocratic ruling style and the ancient world, especially the Roman Empire. On January 25, the Guardian published an article of Jonathan Jones entitled « To understand Trump, we should look to the tyrants of ancient Rome ». Should this article have been a school paper, Mr Jones’ uncritical, floppy use of primary evidence would no doubt have deserved him the same as what Donald Trump would have gotten if his Black History month speech had been submitted in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 7-th grade classroom. The conclusion is a gem in itself :
The Romans did not see tyranny as a single fixed set of sympt…
Lire la suite de l’article de Katherine Blouin : https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/ancient-history-in-the-age-of-trump-time-for-the-media-to-update-their-classics/
