Judge, 91, Says Age Can Be Problem—for the Young

The Brooklyn federal courthouse was busy on a recent Thursday. Judge Frederic Block was not.

“I’m in my bedroom in Greece,” the 91-year-old Eastern District of New York judge told me by Zoom. “We have a beautiful villa. I’m sleeping better, I’m eating better, I lost several pounds.”

In Greece, Block continued dreamily, “they do all the things we’re not supposed to do. They don’t eat until 10 o’clock. They smoke. They dance. They go to sleep at 1 in the morning. And they live longer than we do. Why? Because they don’t have as much as stress as we ...