"But in an aging world, the technocratic desire to reform old-age entitlements will become ever more essential and correct — so long as the savings can be used to make it easier for young people to start a family, open a business, own a home. And countries that find a way to make this transfer successfully will end up far ahead of those that just sink into gerontocracy."Mr. Douthat, there is a reason you are so vague here. What can you possibly mean by "to reform old-age entitlements?" You cast it as an act of primary importance. It is at the top of your article. It eclipses acting to meet the threats of climate change. Until recently, you took the overt position that climate change was not important. You fail to comment on the change in your long-held perceptions, to which you held firm for decades, in the face of a clear and monolitic scientific consensus. Where are your statements of "I was wrong?" Where is the analysis of how you managed to fail in your job for so long, and so dangerously? How do you respect yourself if you simply try to slide the change in quietly? We need you to be better than that. The "old-age entitlements" you mention without mentioning? We know. You are doing the partisan bidding of your train-wreck of a team:  the GOP. You use the language of indirect reference to Social Security and Medicare. My God, man. My God. Speak clearly. Please.

"But in an aging world, the technocratic desire to reform old-age entitlements will become ever more essential and correct — so long as the savings can be used to make it easier for young people to start a family, open a business, own a home. And countries that find a way to make this transfer successfully will end up far ahead of those that just sink into gerontocracy."Mr. Douthat, there is a reason you are so vague here. What can you possibly mean by "to reform old-age entitlements?" You cast it as an act of primary importance. It is at the top of your article. It eclipses acting to meet the threats of climate change. Until recently, you took the overt position that climate change was not important. You fail to comment on the change in your long-held perceptions, to which you held firm for decades, in the face of a clear and monolitic scientific consensus. Where are your statements of "I was wrong?" Where is the analysis of how you managed to fail in your job for so long, and so dangerously? How do you respect yourself if you simply try to slide the change in quietly? We need you to be better than that. The "old-age entitlements" you mention without mentioning? We know. You are doing the partisan bidding of your train-wreck of a team:  the GOP. You use the language of indirect reference to Social Security and Medicare. My God, man. My God. Speak clearly. Please.

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