IS THE END OF MANDATORY RETIREMENT BAD FOR ACADEMIA? Seems as if it’s proceeding just as Richard Epstein predicted twenty years ago, which is to say, badly. Ending mandatory retirement — which happened elsewhere years before the law applied to academia — is just another part of the ongoing process of transferring wealth from younger people to older people.

I’m amused, though, to imagine the author of this piece extending her reasoning to, say, Hillary Clinton. . . .

UPDATE: Roger Simon emails: “Hey, what’s all this aging bullshit from the mega-tedious Chronicle of Higher Ed? Sophocles wrote Oedipus at Colonus near his death at age 90. No one has done anything of that level since Shakespeare. (Well,maybe Tolstoy, but he was no spring chicken.)”