Samuel Moyn
@samuelmoyn.bsky.social
“Gerontocracy in America” (2026) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/ http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
The book is lowkey fire and this review is fascinating pushback
John Fabian Witt@johnfabianwitt.bsky.social · 3d agoI review the big new book by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social in @thenation.com, with lots of admiration . . . and some pushback, too. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The book is lowkey fire and this review is fascinating pushback
John Fabian Witt@johnfabianwitt.bsky.social · 3d agoI review the big new book by @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social in @thenation.com, with lots of admiration . . . and some pushback, too. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Pondering this powerful case for some sort of court reform www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...
Opinion | Democrats Need a Plan for Supreme Court Reform. Here’s a Start.
Why Democrats must prioritize court reform.
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Why didn't someone tell me that "The Devil Wears Prada 2" is about how gerontocrats should never have to retire, on a flimsy pretext about how only they preserve creative and non-capitalist values? Hmm...
Amazing week on “On Point”-a five-part series inspired by my book “Gerontocracy in America” that is enjoyable, fair, and interesting. Check it out! What an honor. www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026...
Senior Class: Gerontocracy in America
Older Americans have amassed massive wealth, power and voter influence. On Point's special series "Senior Class: Gerontocracy in America" explores the causes and impacts of this generational imbalance...
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First they sent the stablehands of the old “New Republic.” Then the stsblemaster took his turn. Epic. libertiesjournal.com/articles/mak...
Make Way for Tomorrow - Liberties
We are a little wearied, in fact, by the solemnity with which Mr. Osborn accepts the youthful mind and the youthful point of view. “Youth knows more about the young,” he says, “than old age or middle ...
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Absolute barnburner! (Leon Wieseltier on “Gerontocracy in America” - what an honor to have triggered him.) libertiesjournal.com/articles/mak...
Make Way for Tomorrow - Liberties
We are a little wearied, in fact, by the solemnity with which Mr. Osborn accepts the youthful mind and the youthful point of view. “Youth knows more about the young,” he says, “than old age or middle ...
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“As Samuel Moyn posits in his new book, an ‘oldigarchy’ intent on hoarding wealth and power determines how the US is governed. In this political landscape, young people have reported record levels of dissatisfaction with the rapidly ageing ruling class.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cornell Students Challenge University Power at “Students vs. Billionaires” Town Hall
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to Ithaca students about tuition hikes, sexual violence, free speech, and university governance.
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BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW! Today’s PPF+ bonus episode is part two of David’s conversation with @samuelmoyn.bsky.social about the growing wealth and power of older generations and what can be done about it. Join PPF+ now: www.ppfideas.com/join-ppf-plus
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! In today’s episode for our series about living in ageing societies, David talks to historian and legal scholar @samuelmoyn.bsky.social about the problem of gerontocracy, aka the rule of the old. Do the young stand a chance any more? Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Mark Lilla’s preface to the new edition of Judith Shklar’s “The Liberalism of Fear” www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...
From Fear Set Free | Mark Lilla
Humankind cannot bear very much uncertainty; to our dying day, we are all afraid of the dark. And so we perceive the world selectively, exaggerating the
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Excellent review www.svd.se/a/oEoKa7/det...
Det är de gamla som sitter på framtiden | Annika Berg
Vi lever allt längre – och de äldre har aldrig haft större makt än nu över politik, pengar och arbetsliv. Historikern Samuel Moyn ser en gerontokrati där de unga får vänta på både inflytande och resur...
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Thoughts on @samuelmoyn.bsky.social's superb account of liberalism defensively retreating into itself after more than a century of promising emancipation and liberation (@yalepress.bsky.social, 2023). #Historathon #BookSky #Books #BookTube #Humanities #Nonfiction #Essays 💙📚 youtu.be/KmFh1A9tu3I
"Liberalism Against Itself: Cold War Liberalism and the Making of Our Times" by Samuel Moyn
YouTube video by John David (NicholasOfAutrecourt)
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Congrats to Nicolas for writing one of the most important recent books
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
After further consideration, hard not to rank this as the top video of this century youtu.be/0jk-uPJIeqU?...
The problem of Schubert’s polyphony
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“Obama chose a vice president, Joe Biden, and a secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, who had supported the war he opposed. In crucial ways, Obama’s appointments laid the foundation for America’s response to Oct. 7.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b... via @NYTimes
Book Review: ‘Crossing the Red Line,’ by Akbar Shahid Ahmed
In “Crossing the Red Line,” Akbar Shahid Ahmed goes behind the scenes in the Biden White House in the wake of the Oct. 7 attacks.
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How do you go about transforming an aging society that is deeply skeptical of change, with the far right breathing down your neck?” I wonder if there is a name for this situation. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...
Opinion | Germany Is in Danger. But There’s Still Time.
We should not give in to gloom.
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Ouch. "That Moser and his generation of American Jews have become alienated from the State of Israel, making their opposition to it the central feature of their Jewish identity suggests that his thesis is at the very least partially correct." arcmag.org/destroy-isra...
Destroy Israel, Repair the World | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera
He appears on the world stage as a whistleblower, an informer, divulging to ruling authorities the deep, dark political machinations and unsavory behaviors of the Jews. The Jews, he charges, are a peo...
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“Too much is now endangered for the country’s partisans: a whole unexamined way of self-cherishing, of thinking and feeling about oneself and others, and of acting pitilessly and unassailably.” harpers.org/archive/2026...
Disenchantment, by Pankaj Mishra
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Given my regrettable sex and my debt to those émigré scholars, I can’t help but ask these questions. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Susan Pedersen · Keep off the grass: Oxbridge Attitudes
Academic life is full of churn. The world changes; younger scholars are seized by new questions and, as they hare down...
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