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A new book by Samuel Moyn argues that the country has become an “oldigarchy,” in which wealth and power are hoarded by the elderly. By Jennifer Szalai Reading recommendations from critics and editors ...

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Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos.