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On December 29, 2025, Oxford University Press published The Foundations of Re-Enchantment, a scholarly study by Duke post-doctoral fellow Christopher Coome. Coome’s book explores a transformative moment in Anglophone history, as esotericism began to exercise significant influence over the public

Dr. Paul McHugh, the associate director of the McHugh Program for Human Flourishing, was interviewed by Madeleine Kearns for The Free Press’ “Two Drinks With” series. McHugh reflected on his sixty-year career in medicine and psychiatry, and on the major

The National Endowment for the Humanities announced that it has awarded a $10 million grant to FEHE to “offer new programs in classical humanities within the FEHE network and at other elite universities, and to provide grants for the development

Professor Robert George, direct of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, published an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled “A Solution to Campus Extremism.” In the article, Professor George argues that the current rise in extremist opinions on

Dr. Lydia Dugdale, director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University, published an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “Old Age Will Be Different in the Robotic Age.” In the article, Dr. Dugdale explores ways that

Washington DC – At its annual investiture ceremony in Washington DC, the American Academy of Sciences & Letters (AASL) awarded ten Barry Prizes for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement to scholars of distinction in their fields. The Barry Prize is the Academy’s

Prof. Tyler VanderWeele, director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, and Brendan Case, associate director, published an op-ed in the Harvard Crimson entitled, “What College Rankings Are Missing.” In the article, Vanderweele and Case point out that prominent

Berkeley, CA – The Foundation for Excellence in Higher Education (FEHE) is delighted to share that network scholar Prof. Josiah Ober, director of the Stanford Civics Initiative, has been awarded a prestigious 2025 Balzan Prize for his work connecting the

Dr. Lydia Dugdale, director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University, published an article in The Free Press entitled, “The Doctors Trying to Redefine Death.” In the article, Dr. Dugdale documents the efforts of some physicians to

Cambridge, MA – The Human Flourishing Program at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science has released the first-year findings of the Global Flourishing Study, a five-year project that poses more than 100 questions to more than 200,000 people across 22