Jeffrey Rosen

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Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for The New Yorker.

Rosen’s new book is The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. His other books include the New York Times bestseller Conversations with RBG: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law, as well as biographies of Louis Brandeis and William Howard Taft.

Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School.

Jeffrey Rosen in the News

The Wall Street Journal
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The Founders Anticipated the Threat of Trump
From Jefferson to Brandeis: The First Amendment, the Declaration, and the Constitution
The Atlantic
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Elon Musk Is Right That Twitter Should Follow the First Amendment
The Atlantic
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The Court Loses Its Chief Pragmatist
The Whole Point Was to Avoid Mob Violence

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National Constitution Center Marks Constitution Day With Free Admission, Launch of New Constitution 101 Course

Special guests include Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Khan Academy Founder Sal Khan, ‘Grandmother of Juneteenth’ Opal Lee, MSNBC’s Ali…