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On Presidents Day 2024, NCC President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen launched his new book at the NCC in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief of The Atlantic. They discuss The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. This program was recorded live on February 19, 2024, and presented in partnership with The Atlantic.

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Excerpt from Interview: Jeffrey Rosen discusses John Quincy Adams' journey of self-awareness, from his early academic pursuits inspired by Cicero to his presidency, personal tragedies, and eventual dedication to abolitionism, finding solace and inspiration in Stoic philosophy.

Jeffrey Rosen: Well, I mean, he thought he was drinking too much. But, he never stops. He's so self-aware. In these very vivid raw passages, is describing and recording his feelings. It's a spiritual diary. He has a first phase where he's the boyleston professor of Oratory at Harvard reading Cicero, and reading the literature and quoting from it, and taking as his motto, Cicero's motto from the Tusculanae Disputationes, the same book that inspired Jefferson, and the same book that Locke and Bella Mackie quote "as their inspiration." actually his motto from Cicero is, "I plant trees for another century." In other words, the fruits of my laborers won't come to fruition now, it's for the future. It's always delayed gratification. He becomes president. Of course, his term ends and begins with a defeat by Andrew Jackson and the popular vote.

So he views Jackson as a demagogue, but he insists on this program of national Republican internal improvements and envisions of national university and lighthouses in the sky that become the Smithsonian Institution. But he's repudiated by his party, and he's devastated and feels that the world has ended. Then he's been writing these letters to his son about how to be perfect, letters to a Christian, constantly exhorting George Washington Adams to live up to their ideals and the pressures too much. George Washington becomes an alcoholic and kills himself. Adams is devastated. He's lost the presidency, he's lost his son. He prays for consolation from Cicero. Reading the stoics allows him to determine to be more useful and serve his country in some ways, to make some use of the gifts he's been given. Then he becomes the greatest abolitionist of his time.

He denounces the gag rule in Congress, and he proposes an anti-slavery amendment to the Constitution. This is before the wig party is, is fully abolitionist, inspires Frederick Douglas, who acclaim him as the greatest of the American presidents, and dies on the floor of Congress after denouncing the war with Mexico, and murmurs, "I am composed," which is a passage from Cicero suggesting finally he's achieved, not contentment, some think he said, "I'm content." But it was almost certainly, I'm composed, 'cause it's the self-mastery and self composure that defines the virtuous pursuit of happiness. Plus, I mean, there's so much more.

I'll stop. But he argued the Amistad case for four days, the triumph for the enslaved Africans. But it's so interesting a friend of mine just read the book and also resonated to John Quincy Adams and said, maybe I'll beat up on myself a little bit less or my own efforts to try to make some use of myself. I'll be a little more forgiving. But it's reassuring to see how hard he drove himself. Of course, he went far too much, but it's so beautiful what he achieved. The sonnets are really good too. He wrote this anti-slavery sonnet, and he didn't even transcribe it, 'cause he said it's in shorthand. If it were better, I would maybe transcribe it. We, too, shall find how fierce is the prize. Freedom will remain. It's just gorgeous. So he's my favorite founder.

Jeffrey Goldberg: I was gonna ask you though, because to the extent that you've gotten any pushback at all, which I'm sure you deal with equanimity and stoicism. The pushback you've gotten is that you are scanning the Christian influence over their philosophy and the creation of the founding documents in favor of the stoics. That though they were, some of the founders were theists not traditional Christians, they were all more profoundly influenced by Christian thought than by stoical thought.

Jeffrey Rosen: Yes. That pushback is so interesting 'cause it's a remarkable effort to exaggerate and misrepresent America as a Christian nation. It's not supported by the sources, because the point is that all of the sources, including the Christian ones, all cite Cicero, the point isn't that the founders were stoics. It's that the reasonable Christians, and that's what they call themselves who were rejecting dogma.

Jeffrey Rosen: No, reasonable Christianity is a term of art in the enlightenment for people like the liberal Christian preachers who are the most popular preachers in America like Woolston and Toolson and Samuel Johnson, for goodness sake. It's a really tendentious effort to misrepresent the core of America's founding as Christian, because Samuel Johnson, who's the major textbook writer who Ben Franklin assigns at the University of Pennsylvania for their core curriculum uses the phrase the pursuit of happiness many, many times. He gets it from Woolston, who Franklin Prince and all of them think that Christianity is consistent with reason. That reason is virtue, which is living in accordance with our best interests.

But rejecting dogma and ritual, and what Jefferson called monkish superstition. These people are very opposed to the authority of the established national church. But what's so striking is that the people today who are insisting that America was Christian at its founding, cite an alien tradition that comes from Augustine. They're neo-Augustinians, and they invoke a natural law tradition that remarkably doesn't appear in this book 'cause the founders never cited it. They cited the liberal Christian thinkers as well as all the others, ones the stoics, the civic Republicans, the Blackstone legal theorists and the wigs. Again, all of these are citing, and it's not just stoics, Cicero is a synthesizer of Greek and Roman philosophy. So he's sometimes called a stoic, sometimes a skeptic more technically precise.

But he's getting it all from Pythagoras, who turns out to be the core innovator of all Greek and Roman moral philosophy. Instigates the reason, passion distinction that Plato then epitomizes in the metaphor of the charioteer. Then they all, like legal schools today of Originalism versus Textualism, the stoics and the skeptics and so forth dispute on matters that are not ultimately important to the consonants, the agreement about the importance of using our reason to moderate and master our unreasonable emotions.

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This week I tried something different, I am not movie fan and I don't usually watch movies, I rather prefer biographies and documentaries. While scrolling through NETFLIX, this movie named "The Pursuit of Happyness" came across. I was intrigued by the title, so I started watching and to my surprise, I didn't fast forwarded a single time..!!!

The movie is based on the story of Chris Gardner, a man who loses everything, but eventually gets everything with his perseverance and consistent efforts. Chris is a hard-working, caring and loving father, who struggles financially to provide for his wife and son. His wife left him in the middle and he becomes homeless, and while he had to take care of his little son, he worked as a salesman. Then, he finds an unpaid 6-month-internship position at brokerage firm. Initially he struggles to get contracts for the firm, while trying to make an honest living for his son. Eventually his talents and skills, along with his charisma and personality, earned the trust of several people who signed contracts with the brokerage firm. At the end he got the one paid position and his life changed dramatically from that point.

In the movie it is shown that Chris went through various setbacks before he finally made it to the success. He lost his car, his wife left him, he became homeless, he was broke, his business didn't really workout, he had to look after his son himself, the setbacks were really endless. In the similar way if you are experiencing major setbacks in your life right now in your pursuit of happiness and the fulfillment of your dreams, then you are on the right path.

Chris was already in his 40's when he started the internship at the brokerage firm. I am very sure that he was very conscious of the fact that the other people competing for the position were half his age, but he didn't let that stop him, he didn't allow his age to be a barrier to his goals. May be you are looking at yourself today and thinking to yourself "I am too old to start again "or "I am too young to start that "age is nothing but a number. What matters is your drive and willingness to succeed not your age.

In the movie, his wife thought the stock broker internship was a waste of time, in fact she didn't even believe he had what it took to make it as a stock broker, she use to tease him. Can you imagine how painful that must have been for him, when his own wife didn't believe in him. And maybe that's your situation, where your own friends and family don't believe in you. What matters most isn't what they believe about you but what you believe about you.

No one can predict the next moment. So we can just be on our way and hope that we reach our destination. Who knew that the six-month payless internship would work such wonder for Chris Gardener.

I have been thinking a lot about you and your future, which should come as no real surprise to you or anyone who knows me, for that matter. Thinking about you and your future is the one thing that I have irrefutably done without hesitation or indifference since the moment that you were conceived.