Thursday, May 12, 2005

Oprahpowerment

Steve Salerno, author of the forthcoming book, SHAM: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, writes today about Overdoing on Oprah, that is, buying into the quasi-religion of empowerment and self-esteem. (For those who missed it, Eugene Robinson yesterday wrote in the Washington Post about the "Church of Oprah.")