# Samuel Moyn

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Older workers aren’t retiring. Should they be forced to?

When workers past retirement age can’t afford to retire — that’s one thing. When they can, and just don’t want to — that’s trickier.It used to be legal to force people to retire when they hit a certain age. The trend used to be earlier and earlier retirement. Now it’s later and later retirement. An…

Exploring our “gerontocracy” with Samuel Moyn

Samuel Moyn joins us to talk about how older people are hoarding political power and resources, what that means for all of us, and how we could forge a new path with better representation for people of all ages. GUESTS: Samuel Moyn: Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University. His late…

Forget class differences. How age divides America.

How did the oldest Americans become so rich and powerful? Yale’s Samuel Moyn talks about the growing age divide in America. Americans over 54 now hold 70% of the nation’s wealth, while those under 40 scrape by on just 5%. Moyn - the author of Gerontocracy In America - explains how older Americans g…

Fables in Finance - Season 2, Episode 1

Welcome to season two of Fables in Finance Fables in Finance: The Unconscious Stories We Tell Ourselves About Money Hosted by Will Pitts, LCSW (NIP Graduate, Psychotherapist, and Faculty Member), this season continues the exploration of how money is understood in psychoanalysis and culture.  This e…

Is Radicalism the Answer?

As we enter the midterm elections, Americans seem increasingly ready to move on from the Trump era, but there remains great disagreement about what should come next and how we might achieve it. Intellectual historian and law professor Samuel Moyn is among those who believe that liberals have become…

Who Really Runs America? | The Hidden Age Divide Behind American Politics | Samuel Moyn

Who really runs America? With the 2026 midterm elections dominating the headlines, we're talking about Republicans, Democrats, Donald Trump and who controls Congress. But I want to ask a rather bigger question.Who actually holds power in America, regardless of who wins an election?Because when you …

Samuel Moyn: Gerontocracy and the university

Welcome! We're kicking off our diagnosis of the university with Samuel Moyn, who teaches law and history at Yale. In his new book, Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Hoard Power and Wealth — and What to Do About It, Sam focuses on the urgent need to strengthen inter-generational equity. In our co…