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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 26, 2024

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by | Jan 23, 2024

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by | Jan 19, 2024

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by | Jan 16, 2024

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by | Jan 12, 2024

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by | Jan 11, 2024

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by | Jan 11, 2024

Chris Christie won his campaign. He only ostensibly ran for president. He really ran for token Republican on panel television shows….

by | Jan 9, 2024

Do you, too, long for the good-old days when the philistines tearing down statues did so on their own dime…

by | Jan 4, 2024

“The question of eligibility to serve as President of the United States is properly reserved for Congress, not the state…

by | Dec 28, 2023

America 2023, as surrealistic as anything witnessed on the New Year’s Eve Twilight Zone marathon, morphed from Old Republic to…

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