Daniel J. Flynn, Author at The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Authors
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 | Dec 20, 2022

The seventh installment of the Twitter Files strikes as the least sexy and the most incriminating. Therein, Michael Shellenberger notes how,…

by | Dec 19, 2022

Who runs the Drudge Report? Certainly not Matt Drudge. Keeping the name on the website without revealing the extent of…

by | Dec 15, 2022

Sam Brinton gives new meaning to the political phrase “bag man.” The since-fired Department of Energy employee allegedly grabbed a…

by | Dec 13, 2022

The difference between Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency exchange and Uncle Sam’s legal tender appears one of degree and not of kind….

by | Dec 12, 2022

Kevin de León, a Los Angeles City Council member, knows how Democratic Party cannibalism works. Seeing Dianne Feinstein as vulnerable…

by | Dec 9, 2022

Do Republicans also suffer from a “Superstar Losers” phenomenon? Jacob Stern of the Atlantic slapped that moniker upon Stacey Abrams and…

by | Dec 6, 2022

Instead of providing the Capitol Police backup on Jan. 6, 2021, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi gave them gold…

by | Dec 1, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)’s “I’ve had a bad month” stands alongside Ron Burgundy’s “Milk was a bad choice” as an understatement….

by | Nov 29, 2022

In China, authoritarians flood Twitter with ads for prostitutes and pornography in an effort to prevent users from obtaining information…

by | Nov 24, 2022

The strange yet predictable response to last weekend’s shooting at a gay club in Colorado Springs witnesses longstanding critics of…

Sign up to receive our latest updates! Register
[ctct form="473830" show_title="false"]