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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.  
by | Jan 30, 2025

The Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hearings demonstrate that Democrats hate the heretics more than they do the heathen. Cults operate…

by | Jan 23, 2025

Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Hill policeman who died the day after the Jan. 6 riots from a stroke, remains the…

by | Jan 20, 2025

The irony of Donald Trump taking his presidential oath of office in the same rotunda where QAnon Shaman wandered unmolested…

by | Jan 16, 2025

WORCESTER, Mass. — Thu Nguyen, the first nonbinary politician elected to office in Massachusetts (but, trust me, not the last),…

by | Jan 14, 2025

Jack Smith lost at the Supreme Court, in federal court in Florida, and on Election Day. So, a week and…

by | Jan 9, 2025

Donald Trump promised to build a wall at our Southern border in his first term. He promotes the erasure of…

by | Jan 6, 2025

U-Haul’s release of its annual Growth Index tells us much about the state of red and blue states. Tennessee, Florida,…

by | Dec 30, 2024

In a sign of the times, 2024 whizzed by in the instant it took for a bullet to travel 150…

by | Dec 23, 2024

Many not-so-nice characters made their way onto Joe Biden’s nice list. When Santa Claus mistakes Dasher for Dancer and believes…

by | Dec 19, 2024

Lyndon Johnson feared conservatives as “The Great Beast” in American politics. The Great Beast flexed its muscles on Wednesday. The…

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