Get Happy

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

True happiness can feel elusive, especially in our chaotic age. Thankfully, former AEI president and current Harvard professor Arthur Brooks seems to have cracked the code for achieving it. On today’s Remnant, he joins Jonah to explore common mistakes people make in the pursuit of fulfillment, lies the world tells us about satisfaction, the “fear-based cultural polarity” consuming Western society, and what we can do to address America’s alarming loneliness problem. Be prepared to revise your bucket list. Show Notes: - Arthur’s webpage - Arthur’s Atlantic column - Arthur’s new book, From Strength to Strength - Family formation in post-COVID America - Yuval Levin: “The Changing Face of Social Breakdown” - Jonah: “I Think We’re Turning Japanese … I Really Think So” - Arthur: “The Kind of Love That Makes People Happiest” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.2	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.5	Can I please have your attention
0:18.5	Thank you
0:27.5	Ladies and gentlemen, this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the dispatched and dispatched media
0:33.2	Come check us out. Give us nice reviews sacrifice 50 oxen to ball do whatever you want
0:40.1	I'm very excited today. That's why I'm rushing through our ingest to have old friend and
0:44.9	And and I mean that in both senses of the word and a
0:51.8	Guy I owe a lot to and I've learned an enormous amount from
0:56.6	the former
0:58.9	President of the American Enterprise Institute who now teaches at some
1:03.0	trade school in Cambridge, Massachusetts called
1:07.4	Harvard or something I can't really understand something. I don't know how to pronounce that and
1:11.7	And he has a new book which debuted debuted at
1:17.5	Number one on the New York Times bestseller list. I don't think people appreciate how difficult that is to do if you're not named Oprah
1:25.5	And the book is called from strength to strength finding success
1:30.2	Happiness and deep purpose in the second half of life and its author
1:35.2	Arthur Brooks Arthur welcome back to the Remnant
1:38.5	Thank you Jonah. I'm gonna delight. I'm looking at you people are listening to us
1:43.0	But I get to look at you and it makes me happy to see you and makes me miss you all more
1:47.6	That's sweet and I miss you as we were talking about beforehand. I miss you as well. I look I
1:53.5	Huge fan of Robert Dore. I think he's doing a great job as the new president of AI
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