Planet of the Aging Guardians: Why the World Still Lets ‘Senators’ Hold the Keys
From the marble colonnades of Rome to the air-conditioned cubicles of Canberra, the word “senator” still carries a faint whiff of toga parties and gravitas. In theory, a senator is the adult in the room, the institutional memory, the last line of defense between a twitchy head of state and the launch codes. In practice—well,…