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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 | May 28, 2026

Conventional wisdom fixates on the foolishness of Texas Republicans nominating an impeached attorney general and admitted adulterer as their U.S….

by | May 20, 2026

Donald Trump killed the Tea Party Movement on Tuesday. The Trump-orchestrated defenestration of Rep. Thomas Massie from Congress confirms the…

by | May 14, 2026

Venezuelans hate the idea floated by Donald Trump of making their country the 51st state. Americans who love their country…

by | May 13, 2026

The Consumer Price Index rose by .6 percent within the month of April and 3.8 percent annually from a year…

by | May 7, 2026

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass insists that “climate change” caused the Palisades Fire. Federal prosecutors believe that an angry, anti-capitalist…

by | May 1, 2026

One of the jokes in high rotation in the late M. Stanton Evans’s repertoire involved a teleprompter miscue, a la…

by | Apr 24, 2026

Chain of command matters in the military (and it matters in life, too, albeit less so). John Phelan, secretary of…

by | Apr 22, 2026

Without loud and visible racists, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) would cease to exist. Is that why it allegedly…

by | Apr 22, 2026

The Department of Justice alleges that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) funneled millions of dollars to members and associates of…

by | Apr 16, 2026

The Democrats finally confided their secret to America. The Washington Post titled an article, “How Eric Swalwell rose to the…

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