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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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Democrats Robbed a Bank in Silicon Valley

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 16, 2023

What do Willie Sutton and Democrats have in common? One can rob a bank by wearing the Hamburglar’s mask, handing…

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Girls Are Now Being Banned From Sports for Wanting to Play Against Girls

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 16, 2023

If a girls’ sports team fielded a boy disguised as a girl, referees once called that cheating. Now when schools…

Spectator A.M.

Left-Wing Activists Controlled SVB’s Board

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 15, 2023

The board of SVB, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, included as many people who grieved over Donald Trump’s…

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Silicon Valley Bank Got Woke, Went Broke

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 13, 2023

Six months ago, SVB, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, announced an audit so important to its business that…

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New York Tries to Force Mail-Order Abortions On the Rest of the Country

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 10, 2023

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James pressure CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid to fulfill orders of…

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Biden’s DOA DEI Budget

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 10, 2023

The numbers of President Joe Biden’s budget, increasing federal spending from $6.5 trillion to $6.9 trillion, offend. More so do…

Spectator A.M.

Even More Americans Now Identify As LBGT

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 9, 2023

When Gallup first measured the percentage of alphabet people in the United States a decade ago, 3.5 percent claimed a…

Spectator A.M.

You Cannot Say CPAC Failed to Warn Us About Election Fraud

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 8, 2023

An entire panel and parts of some speakers’ speeches focused on electoral corruption at the Conservative Political Action Conference. An…

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Tucker Carlson Exposes Jan. 6 Committee as Crude Liars

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 7, 2023

“Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?” Democrats and their votaries essentially ask that question in…

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Does Chasten Shop at Kohl’s?

by Daniel J. Flynn | Mar 6, 2023

Pete Buttigieg does not take criticism well. He asks of his critic with the loudest megaphone, “You think Tucker Carlson…