“Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
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The excellent and rich review from @JamesChappel is the best version of class-reductionism and refusal of intersectionality on this topic I've seen. I don't think the fact that age is mutable settles the debate: the oligarchy does not "happen" to be old. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
Older people are not holding everyone else back. A more just society requires a different fight.
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On Mathew Arnold, and his liberal Target (John Bright)
with shout outs to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @jcherniss.bsky.social
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Your father would definitely apparefiste this as a gift a.co/d/07g7pkjW
Final version up! “The Post-Legitimacy Court,” with Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Interesting review and much good summary, albeit with several outright errors (starting with the epigraph source). Class reductionism for the win again. newrepublic.com/article/2115...
Margaret, let’s talk
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