Author and critic, Barbara Ehrenreich, has spent much of her career bringing her keen discernment and well-written prose to the institutionalized “isms” of class and sex. She’s also pointed her lens at medicine, sickness, greed, religion, the positive thinking movement, and more. Let’s just say Barbara Ehrenreich thinks deeply about the way our society works. In her most recent book, “Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer“, Ehrenreich takes on the anti-death culture that keeps us longing and paying for ever-longer, though not necessarily better, lives.