The Culture of Narcissism is one of those books that both could never be written today and is still written all the time. Insofar as the publishing industry continues to pump out hot takes on What Is Wrong: And How It Applies to Everything, it’s practically timeless. But what makes it unique today is who is writing it: not the latest pop psychologist or someone with dubious credentials as a lifestyle coach, but a highly regarded scholar in his time and someone who occupied that mythical status of “public intellectual” that the likes of Russell Jacoby still pine for. This Read more