Psst: My book available in the U.K. today

My glory days in England

Friends,

I love England, er, Britain, er, Great Britain.

I spent two of the happiest years of my life as a graduate student there, studying economics and philosophy.

When I arrived, I thought I spoke English but soon discovered that (as Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw is reputed to have said) the U.S. and Britain are two nations divided by a common …