“How ugly is ageism in the United States?” begins “Blame Ageism,” a review of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism by eminent age scholar Margaret Gullette. It was Gullettte’s book Agewise that radicalized me years ago. In this trenchant essay she critiques the “neoliberalizing” of old age, and writes, “Along comes Ashton Applewhite with a book we have been waiting for.”