The unlimited choices we face in modernity make us restless, which is why Dr. Benjamin and Dr. Jenna Storey wrote Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment. The book explores ideas by those who have thought about and written on contentment and the application of those ideas today. Benjamin also shares about his own quest for knowledge and how it culminated in this book.

Mentioned in the episode

Benjamin Storey

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Dr. Larry Goldberg

Committee on Social Thought - The University of Chicago

Michel de Montaigne

Furman University

The Tocqueville Program

Social, Cultural, and Constitutional Studies

Yuval Levin

Joseph Epstein

Majoring in Fear by Mark Shiffman

Machiavellianism

Hertog Foundation

Plato

Herman Melville

Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age

Ross Douthat

The Decadent Society

Renaissance Humanism

The Classical School Movement

William James and the Great Pragmatists

Radical Skepticism

Why We Are Restless

Aristotle on Happiness

Queen Elizabeth: A Lifetime Of Service | Timeline

Blaise Pascal

Town and Gown Relations

The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership