Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness
Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness is a 12-part series hosted by Jeffrey Rosen that explores how the founders understood personal growth, and how you can put those ideas into practice today. Pursuit is made possible with support from the John Templeton Foundation.
New Podcast Series
Featured Episodes and Content
Preview of Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness
Learn all about this new podcast series, which will debut on Monday, September 8.
Listen NowComing Soon: Episode One (In Order to Be Happy)
To start our series, Jeffrey Rosen and scholar Robert P. George trace how the meaning of pursuit of happiness has changed. Also, Ken Burns appears.
Coming Soon: Episode Two (Temperance)
To the founders, happiness was not the attainment of whatever you want, but a lifelong striving to improve their character.
Meet the Host
Jeffrey Rosen
Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate the public about the U.S. Constitution.
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