American Academy Of Sciences & Letters Awards 10 Barry Prizes For 2025

The American Academy of Sciences & Letters has announced the 10 recipients of this year’s Barry Prize, awarded to scholars at U.S. colleges and universities for distinguished intellectual achievements in the arts, sciences and learned professions.

An annual award, the Barry Prize “honors those whose work has made outstanding contributions to humanity’s knowledge, appreciation, and cultivation of the good, the true, and the beautiful.” Winners of the Barry Prize receive a cash award of $50,000 and also become members of the Academy.

The 2025 Barry Prizes were awarded in a November 12 ceremony in Washington, D.C. to:

… Philip Hamburger, the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia University and founder and CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance. an independent, nonprofit civil-rights organization based in Washington, D.C. Described by the Academy as “one of the preeminent scholars writing today on constitutional law and its history,” Hamburger teaches and writes on religious liberty, freedom of speech and the press, academic censorship, the regulation of science, judicial duty, administrative power, and the development of liberal thought…

November 14, 2025