What ‘Succession’ Gets Right About Our Aging Elite | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat @InterestingTimesNYT
What ‘Succession’ Gets Right About Our Aging Elite | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat @InterestingTimesNYT
Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
It’s not just politicians — American executives are getting older too, with the average age of chief executives rising to 61 in 2023, according to an April 2026 working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. There’s a dark side to this trend, the Yale law professor Samuel Moyn argues on “Interesting Times.”

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