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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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Defund NPR Yesterday

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 18, 2024

Last week, Uri Berliner reported inconvenient facts. Now he no longer works at NPR. Such is the fate of truth-tellers…

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Black Robe Cannot Hide That Juan Merchan Is Deep Blue

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 16, 2024

Juan Merchan, the Manhattan judge presiding over the convoluted case concocted against Donald Trump, contributed small amounts of money in…

Spectator A.M.

O.J. Simpson, RIP

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 12, 2024

O.J. Simpson acted as a transracial figure prior to June of 1994. Post–June 1994, he acted as a racially polarizing…

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The Eloquence of Unga-Bunga

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 11, 2024

Houston, we have a problem. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took time off from leaving angry, obscene messages for underlings to…

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Trump Made the Right Call

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 9, 2024

“We are deeply disappointed in President Trump’s position,” Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, reacted to Donald Trump revealing…

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What PBS Got Wrong, and Right, About William F. Buckley Jr.

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 8, 2024

PBS premiered “The Incomparable Mr. Buckley” coincidentally on the same day that I visited Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library to…

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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…