Project: "Reason and Religion in the Public Square, explores the alleged chasm between faith and reason."

Bio:

Ryan is the editor of Public Discourse: Ethics, Law, and the Common Good, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, NJ. He is also the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free Society at the Heritage Foundation. His research focuses on bioethics, marriage, religious liberty, economic justice, and natural law theory.

Ryan previously served as the assistant editor of First Things: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life, where he worked closely with Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, as a Journalism Fellow of the Phillips Foundation, and as the executive director of the Witherspoon Institute, where he was research assistant to Robert P. George and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Anderson’s most recent work focuses on the moral and constitutional questions surrounding same-sex “marriage.” With Princeton’s Robert P. George and Sherif Girgis he is the author of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, to be released in Spring 2012 from Encounter Books, and of “What is Marriage?” an article in the Winter 2011 issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. The same trio recently filed amicus briefs with the 9^th Circuit Court on the appeal of Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the case reviewing the constitutionality of California’s Proposition 8, and with the 1^st Circuit Court on the challenge to DOMA.  Anderson is an alumnus of Princeton University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and is a doctoral candidate in political philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His articles have appeared in First Things, the Weekly Standard, National Review, the New Atlantis, the Claremont Review of Books, Touchstone, Books and Culture, Christianity Today, The City, and the Human Life Review.