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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 6, 2026

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by | Dec 30, 2025

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by | Dec 23, 2025

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by | Dec 17, 2025

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by | Dec 15, 2025

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by | Dec 11, 2025

The culture wars, not content with bending and blocking the words we read, apparently come for the typeface in which…

by | Dec 4, 2025

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by | Nov 30, 2025

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by | Nov 20, 2025

The passage of a law that mandates the release of government files on Jeffrey Epstein during the anniversary week of…

by | Nov 13, 2025

Why stop at a 50-year loan for first-time home buyers? Why not a 100- or 500-year loan? The 50-year mortgage…

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