{"id":9294,"date":"2021-04-20T12:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T12:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/04\/19\/beyond-the-joyless-quest-for-joy\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:39:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:39:58","slug":"beyond-the-joyless-quest-for-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/beyond-the-joyless-quest-for-joy\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the joyless quest for joy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/beyond-the-joyless-quest-for-joy\/\">National Review<\/a><\/strong>, Yuval Levin, author, lecturer and director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), offers a ringing endorsement for a new book by Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey, professors in Furman University&#8217;s Department of Politics and International Affairs. Levin, a frequent guest for the Tocqueville Program at the university, says the book, &#8220;Why We Are Restless,&#8221; &#8220;&#8230; is an education in the irony and complexity of the modern quest for contentment, and in the pre-modern sources required for any understanding of how to actually achieve meaningful contentment.&#8221; Levin adds, &#8220;I can&#8217;t recommend it enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In National Review, Yuval Levin, author, lecturer and director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), offers a ringing endorsement for a new book by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[445,809,136,810],"class_list":["post-9294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-anxiety","tag-contentment","tag-happiness","tag-joy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}