Samuel Moyn 🔭

“Forerunner” (NY Mag). “Middler” (NYer). “Howlingly wrong” (colleague). “Gerontocracy in America” (2026). “I didn’t expect it to gain immediate acceptance.”

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

The limits of my Bitmojis are the limits of my world.

[Alex Vukovich @drvukovich]

Why? My thesis advisor at Cambridge retired and remains research active. In fact, he has never written more than he’s writing now. Let someone else get a shot at teaching and introducing students to some new ideas🤷‍♀️

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Happy 4th

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

A mix of democracy, capitalism & longer life expectancy has created “new & insidious forms of elder rule,” @samuelmoyn writes in his new book "GERONTOCRACY IN AMERICA: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth — and What to Do About It." https://t.co/c7rsnhsLwm

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@rationalcreatur Merleau-Ponty

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

But what will I teach every fall? https://t.co/MhcqmceYYe

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Roberto Unger on Marx and Keynes: https://t.co/QXs9L318pp

[Teresa M. Bejan @tmbejan]

I have a new essay on the meaning of equality—before and after the Declaration of Independence—now out in The Atlantic!

Drawing on my forthcoming book for @Harvard_Press (and featuring the Levellers):

https://t.co/0erQ8t39rf

[Yale Law School @YaleLawSch]

In 1976, bicentennial celebrations were everywhere. Fifty years later, the 250th is passing with less fanfare. Professor @samuelmoyn explains at @yalereview.
https://t.co/pkgovX121U

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@AntonKhalski @daniel_dsj2110 Huh?

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Thoughts on gerontocracy https://t.co/UZ2icl9ZZz

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret et mala perrumpet furtim fastidia victrix.

Hard pass philosophically, but good luck I guess strategically

https://t.co/3v1Ocd78Ty

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

@jerryzmuller From what I can tell, they definitely meant to choose 1s!

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Is it weird that this book has only one- and five-star ratings when it is so balanced and non-divisive? https://t.co/mPZftqXgzR

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Thanks https://t.co/WUkX3jugSO

[npj @TiltingatM3]

real ones are Watching This Space

https://t.co/A8qlM4eLH5

[Lacan sans contexte @Lacan_nocontext]

You're already somewhat implicated in analytic technique when you start to take a bit of interest in analysis.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Nice patchwork madras on Harvard Law Professor Noah Feldman. Classic American clothiers such as J. Press and Chipp used to make these jackets for well-dressed Americans during the 20th cent, but this tradition has since been eclipsed by MTM operations focused on Italian fabrics.

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Interesting @lsolum post and chart about how far both sides (and each of the justices) were in originalist mode in Trump v. Barbara. https://t.co/UblyLh0mEI

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

@kathy54491 Good point, and there’s a lot of data in the book on such questions. Certainly it’s true that the intrafamilial future isn’t disregarded as much, though even then it’s delayed. But when it comes to the public future…

[Samuel Moyn 🔭 @samuelmoyn]

Great review https://t.co/KY1D0f30Nc

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Devastating https://t.co/wgQEsuFBBI