Academic gerontocracy with Samuel Moyn

On age, class, and jobs.References and suggested readings:Samuel Moyn. 2026. Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth—and What to Do About It. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Samuel Moyn. April 23, 2026. Professors Are Too Old: The Academy’s Gerontocracy Problem is Worse than Anyone Admits. The Chronicle of Higher Education.Dino Buzzati, translated by Lawrence Venuti. 2023. The Stronghold. NYRB Classics.Nazmul Sultan. 2024. Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought. Harvard University Press.Samuel Moyn’s faculty pageFollow Sam on X, The Everything App, @samuelmoynText the show here!Support the showBrowse the American Campus bookshelf