This is one of the most beautiful and important pieces I’ve read in some
time. It saddens me profoundly. Yet it needs to be read, because the
aging of the boomers will someday become America’s number one problem.
Your agreement or disagreement with the authors’ judgements should not
prevent you from appreciating this article’s importance. This is our
future. Let’s face it now and mull the problem as best we can. So, from
the January issue of Commentary magazine, here is Eric Cohen and Leon
Kass’s, “Cast Me Not Off in Old Age.”