I Let My 9-Year-Old Watch the Debate. It Was a Mistake.

The first words out of her mouth were, “He looks so old!” And that’s really all you need to know about the first (and possibly last) presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump — the initial impressions of a fourth-grade girl in Brooklyn who has never watched a debate in her life. This was not an example of the unacknowledged truth slipping from the mouth of babes; it was, rather, a universal response, a shattering moment that...