More Media Accounts: The crossroads between Pleasure and Ethics: Desire v. Ought?

The Psychology of Bliss: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/27/books/review/Henig-t.html
This article explores an evolutionary psychology understanding of the claim that the good life, pleasurably speaking, is often at odds with the ethical.

Excerpt:
"Our most puzzling sources of pleasure, according to this view, are side effects of our inborn “'essentialism,'” the idea that “'things have an underlying reality or true nature . . . and it is this hidden nature that really matters.'”

The Usefulness of Anger, by J.M. Bernstein:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/the-usefulness-of-anger-a-response/

Here Bernstein enjoins the ethical to a universal (moral anger), which is according to the Book Review, Psychology of Bliss, at the heart of our pleasure.

Excerpt 1:
"Moral anger creates, enjoins, makes possible moral community; again, moral anger is a form of “'fellow feeling which each individual has in behalf of the whole species.'”

Also, Bernstein using nihilistic as an adjective of Tea Party phenomenon:

Excerpt 2:
"Although none of the responses raised the issue directly, it might be argued that my chastisement of Tea Party advocates for lacking a workable political program, and hence in being nihilistic, assumed, since there is no exit from this political community, that the right response to our broken political present was grim forbearance."