Dr. Koty Arnold

Gordon Dakota “Koty” Arnold is a native of High Point, North Carolina and received his B.A. in Government with a minor in History from Regent University in 2017. During his time as an undergraduate, he worked for several political institutions that promoted conservative political causes, including the National Right to Work Committee and the Leadership Institute. After the completion of his Bachelor of Arts degree, he served as a Fellow for a semester at the John Jay Institute, where he studied many of the greatest books of Western civilization within the context of a Christian community. In 2018, he began his Ph.D. work at Hillsdale College, where he studied American Government and Political Theory. He completed his Ph.D. with honors in 2024, writing his doctoral dissertation on the constitutional and political philosophy of Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Sr.

Arnold specializes in the study of American Government, the American political tradition, and American political history. One special interest for him is the political thought of the Progressive Era. He has sought to explore the beliefs and ideas of key Constitutional Conservative leaders who resisted the Progressives. Consequently, his doctoral dissertation focuses on the Constitutional Nationalism of the conservative Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts, while his first scholarly journal article explored the political philosophy of President Calvin Coolidge. His other major scholarly interests include the relationship between religion and politics, the division between ancient and modern political philosophy, and political ideologies. He has written on Jonathan Edwards, James Madison, Augustine, Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and other critical thinkers in the Western heritage. As a Professor at Colorado Christian University, he believes that he has a duty to bring the history of ideas to life and he hopes to inspire his students with the same passion for truth that his teachers helped instill in him.