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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VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson with Dr. Kevin Roberts on Building a Culture of Life

June 22, 2022 | The Kevin Roberts Show

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[Audio] Ryan T. Anderson on the Cost of Legalized Abortion

June 20, 2022 | Issues, Etc.

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AUDIO: Ryan Anderson on ‘Say Yes to Life’

June 9, 2022 | Annunciation Radio

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AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Pelosi, Communion, and the First Amendment

May 24, 2022 | Townhall Review

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VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson on the Transgender Threat

May 10, 2022 | EDIFY

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VIDEO: Ryan T. Anderson on the Dobbs Leak and How to Prepare for the End of Roe

May 6, 2022 | National Review Institute

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AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on NPR on the Origins of Life

May 8, 2022 | NPR

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AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis on How The Leaked Dobbs Opinion Would Change America

May 4, 2022 | The Federalist Radio Hour

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AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Sorting Through the Betrayal of Confidence at the Supreme Court

May 3, 2022 | Townhall Review

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VIDEO/AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson on Preparing for a Post-Roe World

May 3, 2022 | Breakpoint Podcast

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VIDEO: Ryan Anderson on Creation, Church and State, and Natural Law Theory

March 17, 2022 | The Southern Baptist Theologial Seminary

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AUDIO: Ryan T. Anderson Discusses Gender Ideology, Education on The Catholic Current

March 9, 2022 | The Catholic Current

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