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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 | Nov 19, 2024

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by | Nov 18, 2024

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by | Nov 14, 2024

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by | Nov 12, 2024

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by | Nov 8, 2024

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by | Nov 6, 2024

Kamala Harris, a candidate who proved herself capable of saying anything to win, appears at a loss for words upon…

by | Nov 4, 2024

If you want to stay up to learn the winner of the presidential election, maybe skip coffee and consider a…

by | Oct 31, 2024

Detroit anchor Kimberly Gill asked Kamala Harris this week for her message on the economy. “Let’s start with this,” the…

by | Oct 29, 2024

Spoiler alert: in that joke, “Why did the chicken cross the road?,” neither a chicken nor a road existed. The…

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