
Ryan T. Anderson
President
Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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 Moment, Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom, What 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 Policy, First 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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Ryan T. Anderson explains why the Pro-life Cause Must Now Renew Marriage
November 22, 2024 | Communio
Ryan T. Anderson on the Future of the Pro-Life Movement
November 15, 2024 | The Catholic Association
Ryan T. Anderson discusses The Essential Catholic Guide to Voting
October 4, 2024 | FOCUS Catholic
Ryan T. Anderson discusses the state of America in the wake of the Dobbs decision
September 26, 2024 | Stu Does America
Ryan Anderson on the Post-Dobbs Abortion Reality
September 26, 2024 | First Things: The Editor's Desk
Ryan Anderson on the Duty to Care, Not Kill
July 24, 2024 |
Ryan Anderson on the Fidelity Month 2024 Roundtable
June 23, 2024 | Fidelity Month
Ryan T. Anderson on Christianity in Modern Politics
April 29, 2024 | Guestplaining
Ryan T. Anderson Discusses Two Little Known Stats that Stop Abortions
January 16, 2024 | EDIFY
Ryan T. Anderson on the Lethal Logic of Assisted Suicide
October 18, 2023 | Catholic Information Center
On October 18, Ryan T. Anderson spoke at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, D.C. on “The Lethal Logic of…
Ryan T. Anderson on harm caused by abortion
October 2, 2023 | Theology on the Go
Ryan T. Anderson joined the Theology on the Go podcast to discuss the catastrophic failure—social, political, legal, and personal—of legalized…