Jeffrey Rosen
President and CEO, National Constitution Center
The constitution is the mission statement of America, and it provides a platform for resolving our disagreements peaceably, rather than through violence.
Summary
This week on Leadership Matters, Alan was joined by Jeffrey Rosen, a constitutional scholar, journalist, and educator who has spent his career deepening our understanding of the law and its role in American democracy. Jeffrey is the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he has led groundbreaking initiatives to promote civic education and civil discourse.
Throughout their conversation, Alan and Jeffrey discussed Jeffrey’s upbringing in New York City, distinguished career in journalism and academia, and his important leadership of the National Constitution Center. They also discussed several of Jeffrey’s published works, including his most recent book, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.
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Guest Bio
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts We the People, a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic. He was previously the legal affairs editor of The New Republic and a staff writer for The New Yorker.
Rosen’s new book is The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America. His other books include the New York Times bestseller Conversations with RBG: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law, as well as biographies of Louis Brandeis and William Howard Taft.
Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and Yale Law School.