[6] He was a visiting senior fellow in national security communications at The Heritage Foundation and[7] a weekly contributor to the nationally syndicated public radio programme Left, Right & Center,[8] author of The West's Last Chance: Will We Win the Clash of Civilizations?
He was a child actor briefly, appearing as Rod Steiger's son in The Harder They Fall, starring Humphrey Bogart and released in 1956.
[14] He then served in the Reagan administration as a policy analyst and speechwriter,[15] and was a staff writer for Congresswoman Bobbi Fiedler.
[22] In 2006, he authored a book, The West's Last Chance, in which he argued that, "Within our lifetimes, Europe could become Eurabia, a continent overwhelmed by militant Islam, which poses a greater threat to the United States than Nazi Germany did.
[25][26] Blankley died of stomach cancer at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on January 7, 2012, at age 63.