Rome Is Falling! Rome Is Falling! by H. W. Crocker III

]H. W. Crocker III is a novelist and historian. He is the author most recently of the comic novel Armstrong (Regnery, 2018). Its sequel, Armstrong Rides Again! (Regnery, 2021), is forthcoming.

 

The next papal election will be more important than the next presidential election.

X, the social media platform, is all atwitter that men think about Ancient Rome every day.

Well, yes, of course we do.

Women, apparently, find that astonishing.

Well, yes, of course they do, which is why the Roman Republic limited the franchise to men.

You know what else men think about every day?

(Clue: it also has to do with Rome.)

Yes, that’s right: men constantly wonder who the next pope will be—because men know, in their patriarchal, heteronormative, cisgender wisdom, that the next papal election will be more important than the next presidential election; they also know that the next pope is likely to be much younger—and therefore hipper—than the next president. (If Joe Biden were a cardinal—heaven forfend—he would, given the voting rules, be too old to cast a ballot for the next pope.) …

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