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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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The Meta Debate About the Presidential Debates (or Lack Thereof)

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 5, 2024

The Trump campaign juxtaposed an empty podium bearing the words “Anytime, Anywhere, Anyplace” with its candidate on the other side…

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What Robert Kennedy Jr. Held Back From His Counterpunch of the Censorship State

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 3, 2024

Joe Biden once called Robert F. Kennedy “the man who I guess I admire more than anyone else in American…

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Those Who Disavow God Entrust Their Faith to Aliens and Bigfoot

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 1, 2024

In the 1950s and 1960s, 98 percent of Americans believed in God. Now, according to Gallup, just 74 percent do….

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Don’t Feed the Pigs: College Costs Soar Past $90,000 Annually

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 28, 2024

Boston University, Tufts, Wellesley College, and Yale aren’t the four best schools in the United States — just the four…

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Biden’s Strange Story Collapses in Bridge Collapse Presser

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 26, 2024

President Joe Biden said that he used to take the train across the Francis Scott Key Bridge in commuting from…

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Good Jerome, Bad Jerry, and the Fed’s Third Mandate

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 21, 2024

The Federal Reserve froze its funds rate on Wednesday as a means of fulfilling its goals of maximum employment and…

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BYU Finds Itself in the Age of Identity

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 19, 2024

Brigham Young University’s attempt to stay true to itself strangely elicits outrage from the journalists, academics, and activists who created…

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Kinsey Institute to Remain at Indiana University Despite Disgusting Past and Present

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 15, 2024

The Kinsey Institute celebrates Indiana University’s decision to retain ties despite a 2023 state law barring tax dollars subsidizing the…

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Biden Takes It Back: ‘I Shouldn’t Have Used Illegal’

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 10, 2024

“I shouldn’t have used illegal,” Joe Biden told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart. “It’s undocumented.” The mea culpa pertained to the president…

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Grumpy Old Man Mumbles State of the Union

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 7, 2024

Joe Biden, like Adolf Hitler and Axl Rose, arrived late. He entered the House of Representatives at 9:16 p.m. and…