Commentary
2023
- "After the Fall of Silicon Valley Bank" by Jonathan Teubner (The Hedgehog Review, March 21)
- "Back to virtue? Effective altruism after FTX" by Xavier Symons (Mercatornet, January 16)
2022
- "Holy Ghosts: On Purgatory and the Paranormal" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, October 28)
- "Pascalian Mockery as Love of Enemy" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, June 15)
- "Investigating Human Flourishing at Harvard" an interview with Brendan Case and Matthew Lee (Profectus, June 7)
- "Class, Employment, And The US Health Care System" by Brendan Case, Grant R. Martsolf, and Joanne Spetz (Health Affairs, May 25)
- "Why some Americans are flourishing in a languishing nation" by Brendan Case and Tyler J. VanderWeele (NBCNews, March 6)
- "Remembering Our Lost Ties to Important Places Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Victor Counted, Richard Cowden, and Wojciech Kaftanski (ABC: Religion and Ethics, February 16)
- "Taking Kids to Church Matters More Than the ‘Right’ School, Study Suggests" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (Christianity Today, January 25)
- "Healthy? Maybe. But are you flourishing?" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (The Harvard Gazette, January 11)
2021
- "Peace on Earth?" by Tim Lomas (Medium, December 14)
- "Directing Human Capabilities Toward Flourishing: A Measurement Framework For Health Services Research" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (and colleagues) (Health Affairs, December 8)
- “The Toll of Unbelief” by Brendan Case (First Things, December 1)
- "Retirement and Meaningful Life" by Ayse Yemiscigil (Medium, November 26)
- "Neither Virtuous Nor Vicious: A Critique of Contemporary Virtue Ethics" by Brendan W. Case (Church Life Journal, November 18)
- "Empty Pews Are an American Public Health Crisis" by Tyler J. VanderWeele and Brendan W. Case (Christianity Today, October 19).
- "Bonaventure's Critique of Thomas Aquinas" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, September 16)
- "What is 'wellbeing' — and why should we measure it?" by Matthew T. Lee and Wojciech Kaftanski (ABC: Religion and Ethics, August 27)
- "The Medieval Sources of the West's Peculiar Psychology and Particular Prosperity" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, July 16)
- "How to Change the Past" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, June 18)
- "The Other Side of Languishing is Flourishing" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (New York Times, May 5)
- "Flourishing Quiz" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (New York Times, May 4)
- "Religious Participation and Women’s Health: A Reply to Homan and Burdette" by Brendan W. Case and Tyler J. VanderWeele (Institute for Family Studies, April 29)
- "Rallying religious and health leaders to prevent child abuse" by Jennifer S. Wortham (Harvard Gazette, April 2)
- "Marriage Made the West WEIRD" by Brendan W. Case (Genealogies of Modernity, March 22)
- "New Pandemic Research Explains How to Flourish in Difficult Times" by Matthew T. Lee (Education Week, March 17
- "The Brain Resides in the Soul (Not the Other Way Around)" by Brendan W. Case (Church Life Journal, March 15)
- "Well-being in Vulnerable Contexts During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Richard G. Cowden, Victor Counted, Tim Lomas and Andre Renzaho (Medium, January 6)
2020
- "The Fragility of Flourishing: Augustine’s Critique of the Stoics" by Brendan W. Case (Medium, November 26)
- "Hope and Religion in a Time of Crisis: Evidence from Colombia and South Africa" by Richard Cowden (The Conversation, November 19)
- "Meaning in Life, Imagination, and Søren Kierkegaard" by Jeffrey Hanson (Medium, November 4)
- "T.S. Eliot's Marian Transformation of the Bhagavad Gita" by Brendan Case (Church Life Journal, September 25)
- "Five Domains for Human Flourishing" by Tyler J. VanderWeele (Medium, September 24)
- "Science and the Sacraments: An Interview with a Catholic Epidemiologist at Harvard" Tyler J. VanderWeele (Catholic Herald, April 20)
- "Contagion, Suggestion, Imitation: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Wojciech Kaftanski (ABC: Religion and Ethics, March 27)
Covid 19 Response
The coronavirus (Covid-19) has shaken the world. Here are some of the ways that the Human Flourishing Program is entering into the public conversation.