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The Good Life is a deeply reasoned but entertaining polemic about how exactly the idea of morality has been co-opted by the political right, as the culture significantly embraces the shallow charms of star, gives a pass when it comes to failings in the realm of marital fidelity, and lives pleasantly with the idea that we are all driven, more or less, by greed and the desire for power over others. Mendelson, who is for gay privileges, intimate equality, labor unions, and the strong regulation of business and financing, is decidedly traditional when it comes to personal morality. She thinks that while the right manages to effectively portray its competitors as socialist slackers, it promises a moral superiority it doesn't at all exhibit, lacking, as she says, moral compassion, one of the essential moral virtues. Provocative, motivating, and deeply grounded, The Good Life implies that while the moral life is a difficult road, a lot more folks who recognize that it is out there to be attempted, the better our culture will be.