Opinion | George Will: For Americans, the pursuit of happiness is happiness

It has been well said that America is the only nation founded on a good idea, the proposition that people should be free to pursue happiness as they define it. In recent years, however, happiness has been elusive for this dyspeptic nation, in which too many people think and act like tribes and define their happiness as the unhappiness of some other tribe. As an essentially American voice, that of Robert Frost, put it, "The best way out is always through." Perhaps the information, the reasoning, and, I hope, the occasional diversion in the newspaper columns, can help readers to reflect and, therefore, lessen our current discontent.