Tag Archives: pursuit of happiness

US: Can Pursuing Happiness, as the Founders Defined It, Bring Us Together?

By and , February 28, 2021 in Rethinking America

No government can guarantee our happiness. That depends on our own efforts and luck. But government can make it harder or easier to attain happiness.

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Just Who Fears Democracy? On the Need to Update the American Republic

By , March 14, 2012 in Richter Scale

How have today’s Europeans turned out to be the real practitioners of the American notion of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?

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