This week’s New York magazine has a long and richly written tour through the emergent positive psychology — or “happiness” — literature. I’m particularly interested in the subject because I toyed with doing an article on the political ramifications of this research, but picking through the data failed to unveil the sort of ideologically applicable axioms such an article would. Some excerpts, with commentary:

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.