Presidential Debates Can’t Help Us Face the Future

Character matters more than talking points in choosing a leader. And it’s hard to know what questions to ask about it.

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It used to be that watching two 80-year-old men argue about what to do in the Middle East might happen accidentally at McDonald’s at seven on a Saturday morning. Now, the whole world is watching because one of those two men will get the nuclear codes.

The presidential debates this year...