Ryan T. Anderson, Ph.D., is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center,and the FoundingEditor ofPublic Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey.He is the author ofWhen Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender MomentandTruth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom.He is the co-author ofWhat Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A DefenseandDebating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, and the co-editor ofA 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, graduatingPhi Beta Kappaandmagna 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 theNew York Times, theWashington Post, theWall Street Journal, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, theHarvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, theHarvard Health Policy Review, theGeorgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, First Things, the Claremont Review of Books, andNational 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.For 9 years he was theWilliam E. Simon senior research fellowat 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.