Since April, I’ve been reading two very different books. One is by the now-retired chief judge of the Federal Court of Appeals in Chicago, Richard Posner. It’s called, Aging and Old Age, published in 1995. In his last chapter, he writes, “The evidence that there really is a process called aging that takes its toll of everyone, albeit at different rates, generating [fundamental][1] and often occupationally relevant physical and mental differences between older and younger persons, is more compelling than any evidence thus far advanced to demonstrate occupationally relevant differences in the fundamental capacities of men and women, whites and blacks, or persons who differ in their sexual orientation.[2] Any of us who have had our DNA analyzed are amazed by the breadth of our origins since the beginning of humankind.
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