Column of the Day

David Brooks explains why experience matters. Governance requires prudence, he says, and prudence requires experience:

The prudent leader possesses a repertoire of events, through personal involvement or the study of history, and can apply those models to current circumstances to judge what is important and what is not, who can be persuaded and who can’t, what has worked and what hasn’t.

Who then, in this election, has experience? That's not for me to say; it wouldn't be prudent.