“Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
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Samuel Moyn
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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...
Hey, @samuelmoyn.bsky.social. We can have a scream together if you want?
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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...
“Our need is not for restoration but for transformation.” Samuel Moyn on America at 250.
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Margaret, let’s talk
On Mathew Arnold, and his liberal Target (John Bright)
with shout outs to @samuelmoyn.bsky.social @jcherniss.bsky.social
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Final version up! “The Post-Legitimacy Court,” with Ryan Doerfler @ryandoerfler.bsky.social. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Or maybe a universal presumption of good faith obviates assessing to how everyone is ideological and there is no ideologically pure scholarship on politically important historical matters.
Samuel Moyn takes aim at senior citizens hoarding power and wealth. But most are just getting by.
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Samuel Moyn on the semiquincentennial and why nostalgia can’t meet the moment.
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[G]eneral intelligence, as Monsieur Renan calls it, or, in our own words, a reference of all our operating to a firm intelligible law of things, was just what we were without, and that we were without...
