We talk to Rosen, the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, about his latest book, "The Pursuit of Happiness," and what the founders had in mind for our country.

Event Summary On March 18, National Constitutional Center CEO Jeffrey Rosen joined AEI’s Adam J. White for a discussion of Mr. Rosen’s new book, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers ...

For a year, Mr. Rosen writes in “The Pursuit of Happiness,” “I got up every morning before sunrise, read a selection from his list, and found myself taking notes on the reading in sonnet ...

Let’s demand our politicians pay attention to the pursuit of Happiness! Per Wikipedia, There is debate about what the word "happiness" may have meant in 1776.

But the right to make a pursuit of happiness, given in a fundamental bill of rights, had quite a different aspect. Men had been engaged in many pursuits, most of them disastrous, ...

When Thomas Jefferson included “the pursuit of Happiness” as an unalienable right in the Declaration of Independence, he wasn't talking about fleeting joy. Here's the true meaning behind the ...