We live in an age of grievance.

More and more people seem to be doing irritating things. And more and more people are responding by getting irritated and angry.

We’re all bumping up against each other. And we’re angry at everybody else for what they’re doing to us. It’s all their fault!

But is it?

Dr. Laurie Santos is a professor at Yale University who teaches a course that asks that very question. The title of the course is, “Psychology and the Good Life,” and it is the most popular course in the 300-year history of Yale University.

In dealing with the question of grievance, Santos points out that grievance isn’t an........

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