He has judged national and international events involving journalism and the plastic arts.
They sometimes judge political and military events by the effect that they had on institutions.
Some - not all - of them also have the right to say that they judged likely military events more accurately than did others.
However, his "faculties are not what they once were," and he needs a human perspective to properly judge events.
United States judges go through years of training before judging important events.
Trust the fact that history will judge events honestly and you will never have to be embarrassed for what your father did.
The wise historian does not adopt a broad brush approach when judging individual events.
"I think the president-elect will judge events and make his determinations as different events warrant," he said.
It will not be an investigation into individual cases of abuse nor a trial to judge past events.
We cannot judge events in our own times.