I Know Best

In 1979, Christopher Lasch published the epochal The Culture of Narcissism warning of the normalizing of narcissism in our society. Lasch may have understated it. 35 years later, in the Obama erawith its parade of endless, often inexplicable, scandalswe have a full blown epidemic of what has recently been called Moral Narcissism. Forget Narcissus and his reflection, Moral Narcissismthe almost schizophrenic divide between intentions and results now pervading our cultureis the new method for feeli