Barbara Ehrenreich is not a happy camper. But maybe that’s okay, because she doesn’t really want to be!

In 2009, Barbara Ehrenreich published Bright-Eyed: How The Relentless Pursuit of Positive Thinking Has Underminded America. As the writer of The Positive Enneagram, I was naturally intrigued when I saw Ms. Ehrenreich recently interviewed on Book TV. I wanted to understand what kind of (presumably) bad experience had given her the incentive to take such a negative view of positive t...

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