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Samuel Moyn

@samuelmoyn.bsky.social

“Gerontocracy in America” (2026) https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/ http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn

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Samuel Moyn@samuelmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

The core thesis of my book is that gerontocracy is no longer freestanding, as in its archaic forms. In modern guise it reappears as a transformation of democratic and market orderings.

Sarah Emily Duff@sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · last wk.

‘what a clear picture of age as a mediator of class would show us is not actually gerontocracy, but capitalism and the fractionated class system it produces.’ By @gabrielwinant.bsky.social Historians of age need to engage with Moyn’s new book!

Samuel Moyn@samuelmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.

All in on this one: Greg Afinogenov is brilliant. “Academia is political today because everything is political—even (or especially) claims that someone or something else is too political.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

In the Grip of Politics | Greg Afinogenov

All of us, from academics to fishermen, have now internalized a practice of reading the social world as a field of political or latently political signs. TV watching habits, food choices, clothing, in...

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Andrew Ayton@andrewayton.bsky.social · 2w ago

This paragraph rather leapt out from David Runciman’s review of Samuel Moyn’s Gerontocracy in America (current @lrb.co.uk). Context: ‘the remorseless greying’ of some areas of US academia; but these are also my thoughts precisely.

A paragraph from David Runciman’s review of S. Moyn, Gerontocracy in America - from current London Review of Books ‘To deprive older academics of the privileges they have been hoarding is not to cut them off from the benefits of the community to which they belong. They can still write books and give papers and go to seminars and hang out in libraries - in fact, liberated from the administrative burdens of a professional existence they can do more of these things, only without being able to control how their younger colleagues manage it. As someone who quit professional academia aged 57 but still lives in a university town and maintains a connection with the institution for which I worked, I can testify to the truth of this. I enjoy going to seminars more than I used to. I enjoy reading academic papers more than I used to. I don't have to sit in meetings that take all day and go nowhere. I don't have to worry about how to mark a piece of work that has almost certainly been written by a machine. The price of this emancipation is having no say in the way the university goes about its business and a less well-padded income than I had in the past. It feels like a good bargain.’
Samuel Moyn@samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

The collapse of U.S. hegemony is because of a threat not from outside but from within. We have come to mistreat strangers while waging endless wars that violate our ideals. Identifying with this neoliberal world order, Nolan is right to feel guilty. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Impale and Cry: Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

In the latest rendering of the epic, there is plenty to feel guilty about even if you did not mean it.

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