Reevely: To rescue democracy, let's start valuing competence

One way out of the tribalized swamp our politics has become might be prioritizing skill at governing over telling us what we want to hear.
Competence in government is a scalar quantity: it has magnitude but not direction.
The great critic Roger Ebert explained his approach to rating movies as trying to judge how well they did what they set out to do. “If a director is clearly trying to make a particular kind of movie, and his audiences are looking for a particular kind of movie, part of my