Nobody remembers the long paragraph from which "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" comes, but perhaps they should: Lord Acton argues that the powerful must be held to a higher standard for the rest, for those who are attracted to power are rarely the best among us. And so I look askance at TIME magazine making Biden/Harris its "Person of the Year," at Andrew Cuomo's Emmy, at the idea that requiring cops to have bachelor's degrees is really going to change anything. Power to the people--that's what we really need.