After President Biden delivers his third State of the Union address on Thursday, much of the analysis will focus on the apparent signs of the president’s age.
Questions like these certainly matter, but they are not the only ones we should be asking about age and aging right now.
In a way, the persistent debate about Mr. Biden’s age represents a mass delusion that we are still a nation of the young.
Such a nation, we might think, ought to be led by someone young, or at least young at heart.
The age of the American president has gone up and down over time, but the age of the American public has not: We get older as a nation every year.
Persons:
Biden, spry, plucky strivers, it’s
Locations:
America, plucky