
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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VIDEO: Ryan Anderson exposes the hidden dangers of abortion pills
June 24, 2025 | "Defund Planned Parenthood Now" Webcast
AUDIO: Ryan Anderson and Jamie Bryan Hall discuss how the abortion pill harms women
June 19, 2025 | CMDA Matters
VIDEO: First Hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission, part 3
June 16, 2025 | The Justice Department
VIDEO: First Hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission, part 2
June 16, 2025 | The Justice Department
VIDEO: First Hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission, part 1
June 16, 2025 | The Justice Department
VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson answers, “What Do Think Tanks Actually Do?”
May 22, 2025 | Sphere Podcast
VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson answers, “Should the Law Only Recognize Biological Sex?”
March 26, 2025 | Buckley Institute
VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson gives A Conservative Response to Gender Ideology
March 14, 2025 | Institute for Faith and Freedom
VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson discusses “The Way Forward After Dobbs”
February 12, 2025 | Conversation with Cardinal Dolan
AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Amazon Ending its Book Ban
February 11, 2025 | Conversations with Consequences
VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson explains why the Pro-life Cause Must Now Renew Marriage
November 22, 2024 | Communio