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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 | Nov 5, 2025

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by | Oct 30, 2025

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by | Oct 23, 2025

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by | Oct 16, 2025

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by | Oct 9, 2025

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by | Oct 3, 2025

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by | Oct 2, 2025

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by | Oct 2, 2025

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by | Oct 1, 2025

Dov Fischer, among the most beloved American Spectator writers, has died after a long illness. The Rabbi Steven Pruzansky writes: “Rav Dov was…

by | Oct 1, 2025

The federal fiscal year started out with a bang or a whimper, depending upon one’s perspective. The government, for the…

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