"Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil" is superficial breakneck survey of recent anthropological and behavioral studies of morality. Bloom's wry humor and vivid exposition make this a fun and interesting read, but he fails to make good on the promise of the book's title. Frustrating. And

My grandfather studied psychoanalysis at Hopkins. At the end of years of training, he gave it all up and switched to a more quantitative approach to psychology. As Freud himself says, "It is not easy to deal scientifically with feelings" and Grandpa decided that the Freudian approach was