Ryan T. Anderson

The following remarks were delivered last night at the Capitol Hill Club in Washington, DC upon reception of the Young Conservatives Coalition’s annual Buckley Award . Thank you. I am honored to be named a 2013 Buckley Award winner. In the two minutes I have tonight, I’d like to . . . . Continue Reading »

The American Principles Project (APP) released an important new report yesterday that marshals data showing a majority of Americans support policies held by social conservatives. The report argues that a unified platform of social and economic conservatism is a winning electoral strategy”though conservatives need to greatly improve their messaging on economic policy and start messaging on social policy… . Continue Reading »

Thank you, Alliance Defending Freedom, for your heroic work defending life, marriage, and liberty. During the past year it has been a blessing to work together on marriage. It’s been a source of encouragement. Thank you Austin Nimocks, Kellie Fiedorek, and Greg Scott for your friendship over the past year… .Continue Reading »

When the Institute for American Values asked me to write a short response to their new report on marriage, I was happy to oblige and am grateful they posted it. It turns out the president of IAV, David Blankenhorn, is decidedly unhappy with what I wrote, replying in his own piece: “No thank . . . . Continue Reading »

At NRO earlier today I was critical of a recent New York Times editorial on marriage. So here let me recommend an article in yesterday’s paper, “ ‘Ex-Gay’ Men Fight Back Against View That Homosexuality Can’t Be Changed .” Mr. Smith is one of thousands of men across the . . . . Continue Reading »

Back in March 2007, I suggested in a First Things On The Square article that “ Bono Still Hasn’t Found What He’s Looking For .” Critical of the approach the U2 rocker took to developmental aid, I argued: Regardless of whether foreign aid caused, and continues to cause, these . . . . Continue Reading »

In one of his last major public addresses, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus declared that “until every human being created in the image and likeness of God is protected in law and cared for in life, we shall not weary, we shall not rest. And, in this the great human-rights struggle of our time and all . . . . Continue Reading »

Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass edited by Yuval Levin, Thomas W. Merrill, and Adam Schulman Lexington, 296 pages, $80 Leon Kass is a national treasure. I first came across his work nearly a decade ago as he led the President’s Council on Bioethics to . . . . Continue Reading »

The Social and Political Thought of Benedict XVI by thomas r. rourke lexington, 158 pages, $55 This short book provides a nice, although rather basic, introduction to the social and political thought of Benedict XVI. Thomas Rourke, a professor of political science, finds in Benedict a thinker who . . . . Continue Reading »

Reasonable Faith by john haldane routledge, 224 pages, $39.95, paper In his 2004 book Faithful Reason, John Haldane noted “without qualification” that throughout his training in analytic philosophy he never felt any tension between faith and reason. He went on to add that “my faith seems . . . . Continue Reading »