Why We Are Restless

by Benjamin and Jenna Storey (Princeton, $28) Whenever Americans are unhappy, the most astute observers look past the ways we fall short of our goals to what those goals are, said Yuval Levin in NationalReview.com. This new book from a pair of husbandand-wife political philosophers is “an education in the irony and complexity of the modern quest for contentment,” in how contentment is elusive when defined as life’s greatest good. The book is proof that there exist “some islands of sanity” in academia. “I can’t recommend it enough.”