A Critic of the World of Choice

A Critic of the World of Choice

(Shutterstock)The Age of ChoiceA History of Freedom in Modern Lifeby Sophia RosenfeldPrinceton, 480 pp., $37EARLY IN THE AGE OF CHOICE, Sophia Rosenfeld, a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, risks ridicule by sympathetically describing the plight of contemporary choosers of products, mates, or ideas. Many of us, she says, particularly if we cannot afford “consultants, advisors, experts,” or other navigators through our sea o…