How Old People Got all the Power with Samuel Moyn

How Old People Got all the Power with Samuel Moyn

Author: Time To Say Goodbye June 17, 2026 Duration: 1:16:36

Hello! This week we have on Sam Moyn, a professor at Yale Law School and the author of the new book Gerontocracy in America: How the Old are Hoarding Power and What to do about it. We talk about how the elderly exercise their political and financial power in the country and explore some of the ideas in this book about how to get more money and political power into the hands of the young. This is a fun, heated conversation with a lot of compelling ideas and takes so please give it a listen.



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