At the same time, Moynihan noted, female-headed households grew; nearly a quarter of urban black marriages were dissolved, and a large share of black children lived without both parents. The argument you would have with a Daniel Patrick Moynihan was over what methods would produce the social goods you could agree were desirable. Everybody knows we have a political gerontocracy on our hands, but on the other hand most of the worst offenders in that number are going away. And then there is the problem of gerontocracy in corporate America, assuming that it is, in fact, a problem. Moyn admits as much, if perhaps unwittingly, when he assails older Americans and older voters in particular as “white” and “conservative.”