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Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, serves as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution for the 2024-2025 academic year. His books include Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (Crown Forum, 2004). In 2025, he releases his magnum opus, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. He splits time between city Massachusetts and cabin Vermont.  
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by | Jul 9, 2026

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by | Jul 6, 2026

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by | Jun 27, 2026

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by | Jun 18, 2026

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by | Jun 11, 2026

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by | Jun 4, 2026

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by | Jun 1, 2026

The Age of Trump paradoxically witnesses a calcified electorate that votes for the party rather than the person and a president…

by | May 29, 2026

An Emerson College poll shows former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in the lead for the Democratic presidential nomination at 18 percent….

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