This week's New Yorker has a meditation on longevity by Michael Kinsley ’72, J.D. ’78. Kinsley wonders why society confers respect, and even bragging rights, on those who live to be very old, "as if living to ninety were primarily the result of hard work or prayer, rather than good genes and never getting run over by a truck." Read the piece—teasingly titled "Mine Is Longer Than Yours"—here.
Lessons from an Old Man in a Black Bathing Suit
Lessons from an Old Man in a Black Bathing Suit
"as if living to ninety were primarily the result of hard work or prayer..."
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