Ryan T. Anderson

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Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

He is the author or co-author of five books, including the just-released Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing. Previous books include When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender MomentTruth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious FreedomWhat Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination. He is the co-editor of A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from “The Review of Politics.”

Anderson’s research has been cited by two U.S. Supreme Court justices, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, in two Supreme Court cases.

He received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and he received his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was titled: “Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights.”

Anderson has made appearances on ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News. His work has been published by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Harvard Health Policy Review, the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public PolicyFirst Things, the Claremont Review of Books, and National Review.

He is the John Paul II Teaching Fellow in Social Thought at the University of Dallas, a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University, and a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, as well as the Founding Editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey.

For 9 years he was the William E. Simon senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, and has served as an adjunct professor of philosophy and political science at Christendom College, and a Visiting Fellow at the Veritas Center at Franciscan University. He has also served as an assistant editor of First Things.

Follow him on Twitter at @RyanTAnd. For his latest essays and videos, you can follow his public Facebook page.

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The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals Repeated Abortion Attempts Due to High Failure…

Jamie Bryan Hall, Ryan T. Anderson

Summary Danco Laboratories markets Mifeprex as “the safe and effective abortion pill,” but our research shows that mifepristone abortion, as…

Stop Harming Women / May 12, 2025

Frequently Asked Questions About the Largest Study on Chemical Abortion

Jamie Bryan Hall, Ryan T. Anderson

The report we released last week is the largest-known study of the abortion pill, based on analysis of data from…

Stop Harming Women / May 7, 2025

FACT SHEET: Excluded Adverse Events in Real-World Study of Mifepristone

Jamie Bryan Hall, Ryan T. Anderson

Overview In the most comprehensive U.S. study to date of abortion pill safety, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC)…

Stop Harming Women / May 6, 2025

The Abortion Pill Harms Women: Insurance Data Reveals One in Ten Patients Experiences a Serious…

Jamie Bryan Hall, Ryan T. Anderson

Summary Danco Laboratories markets Mifeprex as “the safe and effective abortion pill,” but our research shows that mifepristone abortion, as…

 

The Conservative Vision of Education

Ryan T. Anderson

 Summary Now is the time to go on offense in offering a compelling vision about the truth of the human…

Articles

Heritage Foundation / April 2, 2025

How Trans Ideology Took America by Storm

Ryan T. Anderson

President Trump’s Second Inaugural Address and day-one executive order “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to…

Articles

Thomas D. Klingenstein / February 24, 2025

Dignity, Discrimination, and Gender Identity

Ryan T. Anderson

Abstract We can think about human dignity in at least two senses. First, as a moral property or a moral…

Articles

Texas Review of Law & Politics / December 16, 2024

EPPC Scholars File Supreme Court Amicus Brief Supporting Challenge to Colorado Law Effectively Mandating “Gender…

Mary Rice Hasson, Ryan T. Anderson

On Monday, December 9, 2024, EPPC Kate O’Beirne Senior Fellow Mary Rice Hasson and EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson, in…

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PDF / December 12, 2024

The Way Forward After Dobbs

Ryan T. Anderson

It has been two years since the Supreme Court decided Dobbs v. Jackson, overturning Roe v. Wade. It is worth taking stock of…

Articles

First Things / September 16, 2024

Kamala’s Abortion Extremism

Ryan T. Anderson

Harris has repeatedly declined to offer even hypothetical support to any protection for the unborn, or even the just-born.

Articles

First Things / August 7, 2024

A “You Are Here” Moment for the Pro-Life Movement

Ryan T. Anderson

Pro-lifers now face the question of where do their loyalties ultimately lie.

Articles

Breakpoint / July 11, 2024

Ryan Anderson On EPPC’s 2023 And Running a Think Tank In the Battle of Ideas

Ryan T. Anderson

President Ryan T. Anderson reflects on the past year and looks towards EPPC’s future.

Articles, Interviews

PolicySphere / May 31, 2024