Happiness and Misery in America: Live Event in DC!

Join us at 6:15 pm on October 28 at Barcelona Wine Bar before the election to discuss Happiness and Misery in America

In America I saw the freest and most enlightened men placed in the happiest condition that exists in the world; it seemed to me that a sort of cloud habitually covered their features; they appeared to me grave and almost sad even in their pleasures.

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

Happiness has been central to America’s self-conception sinc…