Nathanael Blake
Postdoctoral Fellow
Nathanael Blake, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His primary research interests are American political theory, Christian political thought, and the intersection of natural law and philosophical hermeneutics. His published scholarship has included work on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Russell Kirk and J.R.R. Tolkien. He is currently working on a study of Kierkegaard and labor. As a cultural observer and commentator, he is also fascinated at how our secularizing culture develops substitutes for the loss of religious symbols, meaning and order.
Nathanael Blake, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His primary research interests are American political theory, Christian political thought, and the intersection of natural law and philosophical hermeneutics. His published scholarship has included work on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Russell Kirk and J.R.R. Tolkien. He is currently working on a study of Kierkegaard and labor. As a cultural observer and commentator, he is also fascinated at how our secularizing culture develops substitutes for the loss of religious symbols, meaning and order.
Dr. Blake grew up in the Pacific Northwest, and received an undergraduate degree in microbiology with a chemistry minor from Oregon State University. After working as a writer and editor in the pro-life movement, he enrolled in graduate studies at the Catholic University of America, earning a doctorate in political theory. His dissertation was titled: “Natural Law and History: The Use and Abuse of Practical Reason.” Blake was a Richard M. Weaver Fellow of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and served as an adjunct professor of American Government at Wheeling Jesuit University.
Dr. Blake is a Senior Contributor to The Federalist, where he has published over 150 pieces since 2017. His work has been published in a variety of publications, including Public Discourse, The Catholic World Report, and National Review.
An evangelical Christian, Blake helps lead worship at his church—he particularly enjoys playing old hymns on double bass.
Giving the transgender game away
Nathanael Blake
LGBTQ activists are of two minds about male and female brains
WORLD Opinions / August 22, 2023
‘Good Omens 2’ Goes Bad By Blaspheming Christianity And Comedy
Nathanael Blake
Viewers might forgive ‘Good Omens 2’ for dispensing with the divine but not for forgoing comedy.
The Federalist / August 18, 2023
A setback for good government
Nathanael Blake
Ohio misses a chance to protect its constitution from the “tyranny of the moment”
WORLD Opinions / August 11, 2023
The lies of “born this way”
Nathanael Blake
An LGBTQ presumption and the damage it has done
WORLD Opinions / August 8, 2023
A Department Of Friendship Can’t Fix The Sexual Revolution’s Lonely Fallout
Nathanael Blake
Democrats are finally noticing our society is decaying, but they are almost uniformly unwilling to admit that the culture they’ve championed has anything to do with it.
Articles
The Federalist / July 24, 2023
Is A Postliberal America Even Possible?
Nathanael Blake
Notre Dame professor Patrick Deneen has a new book, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future, that asks a lot of important questions about America’s future and provides some unsatisfying answers.
Articles
The Federalist / July 17, 2023
The Decline Of American Manufacturing Inevitably Means An Empty Wartime Arsenal
Nathanael Blake
One of the obvious lessons from the tide of the war in Ukraine is that globalist economics has defeated globalist interventionism.
Articles
The Federalist / July 6, 2023
Yes, Trans Exhibitionists Showing Their Junk To Kids Is Directly Downstream Of Redefining Marriage
Nathanael Blake
Indulging and endorsing falsehoods about the nature of marriage and sex only leads to more lies and more injuries.
Articles
The Federalist / June 29, 2023
John the Baptist Was a Witness for Life and a Martyr for Marriage
Nathanael Blake
June 24th is the feast day marking the birth of John the Baptist, and it is also the anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade’s false declaration that there is a constitutional right to abortion. John the Baptist is an appropriate hero of faith for us this month: he began his life as a witness for the sanctity of unborn life, and ended it as a martyr for marriage.
Articles
Public Discourse / June 21, 2023
NYT Polyamory Puff Piece Proves Conservative Christians Right Again
Nathanael Blake
The left has lost the ability to say no to anything demanded in the name of sexual liberation.
Articles
The Federalist / May 24, 2023