How to pick a winner

Here in the Disunited Kingdom one of the latest squabbles over who’s going to be Prime Minister centres on whether one candidate might have said she’d be better at the job than her rival because she has children. People are rightly asking why this is relevant, while the candidate who’s alleged to have said it insists she’s been misrepresented. BUT… to the ancient Romans this would have seemed an entirely reasonable discussion. I’ve ment...