The Hertog Foundation offers several highly competitive and selective educational programs for outstanding individuals who seek to influence the intellectual, civic, and political life of the United States. We offer programs in several areas: Humanities, Political Studies, Constitutional Studies, and War & Security Studies.
Roger Hertog is president of the Hertog Foundation. One of the founding partners of the investment research and management firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., which he joined in 1968, Mr. Hertog served as the firm’s president before its merger with Alliance Capital Management in 2000. In 2006, he retired from the successor company, AllianceBernstein, and is currently its vice-chairman emeritus.
Mr. Hertog was previously chairman of The Tikvah Fund, New-York Historical Society and The Manhattan Institute and served on the boards of the American Enterprise Institute, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Public Library, the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, and the Washington Institute for Near-East Policy. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 in recognition of his philanthropic efforts and was presented with the William E. Simon Prize for Philanthropic Leadership in 2010. Mr. Hertog is an alumnus of the City College of New York. He was awarded an honorary degree from Shalem College in 2017 and an honorary doctorate from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2018.
View Roger's Full RemarksHistory, philosophy, religion, literature, art, music. Some may ask, why are the liberal arts so important? What is their real consequence? Well, these are the intellectual disciplines, the building blocks, that introduce the best young minds to the greatest accomplishments of their civilization, and in the process -- and I’d say, most importantly -- prepare them for critical thinking, how to make and defend arguments, how to grapple with and be open to points of view that are different from your own, how to see and interpret the present in the light of the past.
Executive Director
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Cheryl Miller is executive director at the Hertog Foundation. Previously, she served as program manager at the American Enterprise Institute and as head news clerk and editorial researcher at The New York Times.
Dean, Humanities at Hertog
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Mary Elizabeth Halper is Dean of the Humanities at Hertog program and a tutor at St. John’s College, Annapolis. Previously, she was Associate Director of the Hertog Foundation. She graduated with B.A.s in Philosophy and Classics from the University of Dallas and has since been devoted to liberal education in various forms.
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Sydney Fuqua is the Assistant Director for the General David H. Petraeus Center for Emerging Leaders at ISW. Prior to joining ISW, she was program manager for the Hertog Foundation where she spent four years running logistics for their educational programs and events. Sydney graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in Political Science and Economics and is an alumna of the 2012 Political Studies Program.
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A . . . crash course in political theory. Attendees discuss authors like Aristotle, James Madison, and Leo Strauss and hear lectures by scholars and policy experts.
Inspiring young people to write the next chapter in the American story.
At Hertog’s selective summer schools . . . students divide their time between studying statecraft and meeting with some of the actual practitioners of statecraft, including Henry Kissinger, Gen. Jack Keane, and Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, to name a few.
Colleges and universities charge tuition so students can learn with professors. Hertog . . . pays students to learn with some of the finest teachers in the country.
Introduces students at a high level [to] political philosophy, American political thought, American politics, foreign policy – a kind of study that really is hard to come by at the universities.
The Foundation’s fellowship programs for undergraduates and recent graduates combine theory and practice and are taught by distinguished faculty. . . . The Hertog Foundation is working to ensure that America’s principles and practices stay alive for generations to come.
Liberal education ought to be liberating. . . . [Programs like Hertog] expos[e] students to the philosophical foundations of our civilization and our republic.