In the U.S., the age of the median voter is now 52. In primaries, it is 65—meaning that the oldest voters ordain the choices for the rest of us. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...
Essential. Congrats @samuelmoyn.bsky.social
In “Gerontocracy in America,” the historian Samuel Moyn argues that the central conflict of our era is between the young and the elderly.
Not my favorite headline - my case is about age and power when they intersect - but anyway imho the best part of this convo is toward the end when we debate who was right after 2016. www.persuasion.community/p/samuel-moy...
The New Yorker
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Thank you!
Pub date!
Excellent: “As Dylan Thomas wrote, wise men at their end know dark is right. Yet the Bidens still rage, rage against the dying of the spotlight.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/o...
Fascinating especially on "method." lpeproject.org/blog/what-is...
Nice piece (well-informed and -written). If we take its thesis seriously-that Adorno’s pessimism about public reason has been vindicated-we ought to glaze such figures as Jay Bernstein or Raymond Geuss who protested where Habermas took critical theory.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Robert L. Tsai
I wrote a book!
The pub date is tomorrow!
It's about age as a big factor in the distribution of power in American society (including, most important, the sociology of class)!
It's full of facts and stories!
Last day to preorder it-which would mean a lot!
bookshop.org/p/books/gero...
Samuel Moyn
Yascha Mounk and Sam Moyn also discuss whether some people deserve to have more votes than others.
