Authoritarianism Is Theocracy (And Other Short Takes)

In the 1979 film Caligula, a biographical depiction of the life of the Roman Emperor of the same name, Caligula says the following before becoming determined to destroy Rome’s senatorial class:

I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no…