Commentary In 2015, in my role as publisher of Encounter books, I published “Admirable Evasions: How Psychology Undermines Morality,” a gimlet-eyed analysis of the profession by Theodore Dalrymple. The title, as many readers have recognized comes from “King Lear.” The line is spoken by Edmund, bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester and one of the play’s chief villains. He is also given some of the play’s most brilliant lines. “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, “when we are sick in fortune,—often the surfeit “of our own behavior,—we make guilty of our “disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as “if we were villains by necessity; fools by “heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and “treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, “liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of “planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, “by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion “of whoremaster man, …