
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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AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Pastoral Life
January 16, 2023 | The Lamplighters
On January 16, 2023, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson joined The Lamplighters podcast with the editors of The Lamp magazine…
VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson on The Effort to Erase Women
December 16, 2022 | Conservative Women's Network
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VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson on Private Property
December 12, 2022 | National Review
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AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Why EPPC Focuses on Culture, Not Just Politics
December 3, 2022 | The Tikvah Podcast
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VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson on the Future of the Pro-Life Movement
October 20, 2022 | FOCUS Catholic
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VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson on the Personhood of the Unborn
October 15, 2022 | FOCUS Catholic
On October 15, 2022, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson appeared on FOCUS Catholic’s Love Life video series to give the…
VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson on the post-Roe Pro-Life movement
August 8, 2022 | Life Today TV
On August 8, 2022, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson joined Life Today TV to discuss the direction of the pro-life…
AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Tearing Us Apart
August 9, 2022 | Core Principles
On August 9, 2022, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson joined Clay Howerton of the Core Principles podcast to discuss the…
AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on The City of Man Podcast
July 4, 2022 | The City of Man
On July 4th, 2022, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson appeared on the City of Man podcast, presented by the Christian…
AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on The Christian Outlook
July 8, 2022 | The Christian Outlook
On July 8th, 2022, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson appeared on The Christian Outlook podcast with Bob Burney. The two…
[VIDEO] Ryan T. Anderson On John Paul II and the Gospel of Life
May 2022 | Ave Maria School of Law
In May, EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson gave a lecture at the Ave Maria School of Law’s conference “John Paul…
AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on the Conservative Conversations Podcast
June 24, 2022 | Intercollegiate Studies Institute
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