Are Americans Too Old?

An Open Questions piece in The New Yorker's culture section examining whether the United States has become a gerontocracy in fact as well as in optics — with elderly presidents, octogenarian congressional leaders, and rising public anxiety about cognitive decline at the top of American life. The essay sits inside the broader cultural moment where age has become a recurring political and social question, asking what it means to be governed and led by a generation whose lived reference points predate the world most citizens actually inhabit. Note: New Yorker blocked direct fetching; byline could not be confirmed.