Opinion | Older Americans Are Hoarding America’s Potential

Whoa www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Me holding a copy of a book that I wrote with Daphna Renan! Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People

Look what just arrived!! Advance proofs of a real book!! One that actual bookstores are preordering!!!

wwnorton.com/books/978132...

The Old Guard, by Samuel Moyn Confronting America’s gerontocratic crisis

Read and share before it's paywalled: "Gerontocracy in America," June 2026, short form, on @Harpers cover May 2026 harpers.org/archive/2026...

Aerial view of a devastated coastal city with ruined beachfront buildings, a damaged pier, and smoke rising over the rubble.

“Is international law shaping how wars are fought – or only how they’re justified?”
Yale scholar, Professor Samuel Moyn, dives into this urgent question at Oxford’s 2026 Cyril Foster Lecture.
Thursday 7 May at 5pm 📍 Examination Schools
Register now: https://tinyurl.com/bbjmb75u

Published! "[My work has been] in dialogue with two powerful minds, Quentin Skinner and István Hont... Over those six decades, I have made two discoveries that I still think really matter". Read the autobiographical reflections of John Dunn here (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

No, Western Marxism Wasn’t a CIA Plot Gabriel Rockhill’s polemic against Western Marxism seeks to condemn a set of postwar left-wing intellectuals such as Herbert Marcuse. Heavy on innuendo but light on evidence, the result is more like a...

Definitive. ‘Rockhill is a master of guilt by association, guilt by geography, or guilt by anything at all. Sherlock Holmes’s “the dog that did not bark” becomes Rockhill’s dog that never barks, a fact that confirms guilt everywhere.’ jacobin.com/2026/04/revi...

I guess the Hungarian election was the first time in history that “fascism” was voted out of power… 🙄

How ‘Muskism’ Is Changing the Way America Works

How did Elon Musk go from Silicon Valley nerd worried about climate change to chainsaw-wielding billionaire eviscerating government agencies?

On Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's incisive new book, "Muskism: A Guide For the Perplexed."

In our May Issue: Samuel Moyn on America’s gerontocracy; Elena Saavedra Buckley reports on a Mars settlement simulation; Kristin Dombek on love, shit, and parking; Nat Segnit on a controversial French theme park; Charlie Tyson on Francis King; and more.

harpers.org/archive/2026...

The Vladeck Tragedy Why our most careful defenders of the rule of law can’t see the crisis clearly

New Substack post entitled "The Vladeck Tragedy"

Written from a pained place for admiration and sadness.

Grateful for Jennifer Szalai's thoughtful read of Muskism in today's NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/b...

The Old Guard, by Samuel Moyn Confronting America’s gerontocratic crisis

“The government is bought and paid for by members of the oldest generation, and it is organized for their sake. There is no way to separate the age of our elites from their ascendancy.”

@samuelmoyn.bsky.social on America’s gerontocratic crisis

The Old Guard, by Samuel Moyn Confronting America’s gerontocratic crisis

Yay! Launch piece. Please read and share-and preorder the book-if it sounds interesting harpers.org/archive/2026...

This is going to be a weird few months

Srsly, is this better than “Rolling Stone”?

Oxford welcomes Yale’s Prof. Samuel Moyn for the 2026 Cyril Foster Lecture: “Gaza, the Humanisation of War, and the Politics of International Law.”

Exploring law’s limits in conflict and the future of humanitarian ideals.

📍 Examination Schools | 🗓️ 7 May, 5pm
Register: https://tinyurl.com/mr3yubsn

Walter Benjamin’s Fragments from the Deep: An Interview with Peter E. Gordon by Lilia Endter

www.jhiblog.org/2026/04/13/w...

A Fine Country for Old Men Geriatric Americans are hoarding wealth and power.

People are saying www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I voted for Harris too

Yay for Hungary

What if the answer to illiberalism is democracy?

😯

New School Thursday event.newschool.edu/gerontocracy...

What’s Behind Trump’s New World Disorder? A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence.

If you missed this it’s great, and brilliantly written www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Thanks for coming!

No, please let me take complete responsibility for her. 😘

Great job

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

The Perils and Promise of Democracy – Max Skjönsberg Henry Maine saw the US Constitution as being able to resist the pernicious features of popular government.

Ironically, many liberals today have chosen to follow Henry Maine into skepticism of democracy - and there is a lot in his arguments that turns out to transcend conservatism, including the idealization of the US Constitution. lawliberty.org/classic/the-...

Opinion | Democrats Need to Stop Being the Party of Wonks

Great oped. Does it also apply to legal expertise? www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Some Voters Say Congress Is Too Old. These Black Democrats Aren’t Leaving.

Thanks for not messing with my statistics. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

“I am convinced the idea that war can & should be fought less brutally still has a hold on millions”
In this year’s Cyril Foster Lecture Samuel Moyn will explore the rise—and possible fall—of the “humanisation of war.”
Register:
📍 Examination Schools
🗓️ Thursday 7 May, 5pm
https://ow.ly/YIMB50Yyba8

I’m a pragmatist but hypothesized that the relevant decisionmakers had what they needed from conservative originalists, leaving space for other activities, including delegitimation institutionally and public-facing visions about what American citizenship should mean.