Summary

I’m 42; Samuel Moyn is 54. When we talked about his new book, Gerontocracy in America , it felt less like an interview than a conversation between two people who’ve learned to live with the price of telling older, richer people something they don’t want to hear. Maybe Moyn was trying to give me advice when I asked him to describe what it’s like to write non-fiction that leaves a mark.

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