Richard Feynman was brought onto what would become the Manhattan project at age 24. He had not yet earned a graduate degree. Lina Khan was 32 when she started

Richard Feynman was brought onto what would become the Manhattan project at age 24. He had not yet earned a graduate degree. Lina Khan was 32 when she started as FTC chair. Prior to that, she had researched anti-trust at the New America Foundation, received a JD from Yale, worked as a legal director at the Open Markets Institute, worked as a legal fellow at the FTC, and served as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Antitrust. I don't disagree that she made some early missteps at the FTC, but this is far from her first rodeo. I also think that, on balance, it's a benefit to hire young, promising voices to positions of power, and that we should get back to a place where we do that a lot more.