PEGGY NOONAN: Where is the adult supervision?

There's ... an emerging mentoring gap going on in America right now. You can see it in a generalized absence of the wise old politician/lawyer/leader/editor who helps the young along, who teaches them the ropes and ways and traditions of a craft.

And where did the adults go?

The grown-ups took the buyout. The grown-ups were laid off. The grown-ups are not there.

And it shows. Read it all.