Wrestling with a commercial self-help text such as “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” is apt to reduce today’s intellectual in short order to a foaming mass of righteous indignation.  Yet it is odd that this should be so...

I suppose it was inevitable that my analyst would start advertising.  It’s everywhere now.  On Web sites, of course.  In movies before the show, as they’ve been doing for years in England.  Even on NPR.

The first time he did it was a shock, though...