Author: Ryan T. Anderson (Ryan T. Anderson)

About the Author

Ryan T. Anderson

Ryan T. Anderson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Public Discourse. He is also the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.

He is the author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment and Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom. He is the co-author of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, with Princeton’s Robert P. George and Sherif Girgis, and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, with Sherif Girgis and John Corvino, and the co-editor of a collection of essays released by the University of Notre Dame Press titled A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from “The Review of Politics.”

Anderson 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 is a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University, a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, and a Visiting Fellow at the Veritas Center at Franciscan University.

Anderson has made appearances on ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Harvard Health Policy Review, the Weekly Standard, and National Review.

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November 3, 2008December 3, 2018Abortion

The Pro-Life Case Against Barack Obama . . . and Doug Kmiec

By Ryan T. Anderson and Sherif Girgis

The Obama apologists are at it again, this time attacking Archbishop Charles Chaput for speaking out against their candidate's pro-abortion views. But the latest salvo from Doug Kmiec is a tangled web of falsehoods and fallacies.

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October 13, 2008November 9, 2018Public Discourse

Introducing Public Discourse

By Ryan T. Anderson

An introductory letter from the founder and editor of Public Discourse.