[jfengel]

Is it true that most of their writers are twenty-somethings?

I accept the article's assertion that their kneejerk free-market philosophy is, at the least, limiting. But to me, the tone has always suggested middle-age journalism grads, rather than the right-wing business-school types the article is suggesting.

They have a bias, but they don't seem stupid or inexperienced. So much of free-market thought in the US, and recently the UK, has been caught up in culture war, and the Economist is staunchly against that.

Which is to say, they don't read like twenty-somethings to me. So if I'm wrong about that, I need to take another look at the lens through which I view their writing.

[jawiggins]

> Is it true that most of their writers are twenty-somethings?

Wikipedia seems to list their columnists as being closer to fifty-somethings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist#Columns