In 1815, the head of a boarding school in Maine wrote to Thomas Jefferson asking for some wisdom to pass along to his students. Jefferson responded by sending a passage from a Stoic self-help manual, ...

Jeffrey Rosen spent the Covid lockdowns of 2020 reading various treatises by Xenophon, Seneca, Cicero, John Locke and David Hume. He was led to these and other works by a list compiled by Thomas ...

'Pursuit of Happiness' by Jeffrey Rosen. On the right, Rosen at the First Amendment Summit. (Photo of Rosen by Cory Sharber/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what ...

Author Jeffrey Rosen on what "the pursuit of happiness" meant to our nation's Founders. What did "the pursuit of happiness" mean to our nation’s Founders, and why was it included in the Declaration of ...

Bill Firstenberger joins Gail Martin to discuss Jeffrey Rosen's, The Pursuit of Happi What did happiness mean in the 1700's in Massachusetts and Virginia? What does Happiness mean today? Are we ...

The Yale Concert Band, directed by Thomas C. Duffy, will perform its second fall concert in Woolsey Hall on Friday, Nov. 15, at 7:30 p.m. The program features the world premiere of Jim Colonna’s “The ...