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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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Noam Chomsky, Apologist for Pol Pot, Called Jeffrey Epstein His ‘Best Friend’

by Daniel J. Flynn | Feb 11, 2026

“Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Johnny Rotten famously asked at the end of the final Sex Pistols concert…

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The Epstein Enigma Unravels Ever-So Slightly in Bannon Interview

by Daniel J. Flynn | Feb 5, 2026

Jeffrey Epstein called himself a “hermit” in two hours of 2019 interview footage just released. This seemed strange but probably…

Spectator A.M.

Give It Back, Then

by Daniel J. Flynn | Feb 4, 2026

Billie Eilish, who referred to the United States as “stolen land” at the Grammys, lives in a $14 million mansion…

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Springsteen’s ‘Streets of Minneapolis’ an Ode to Fascists Obstructing the Law

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 29, 2026

Do you remember when Bruce Springsteen wrote that rousing anthem to honor Laken Riley? Me neither. But on Wednesday, he…

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The Fred Phelps Left Invades the Churches

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 22, 2026

A Pew poll released about a year ago noted that just 37 percent of American liberals identify as Christians, versus…

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Making Sense of ‘Autistic Barbie’

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 13, 2026

Mattel introduces, 67 years after the original article, Autistic Barbie. “The autistic Barbie doll features elbow and wrist articulation, enabling stimming, hand…

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Died This Week — By Suicide

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 6, 2026

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Monday that its board has formally voted to dissolve it. The vote actually took…

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The Left’s Ugly Response to a Beautiful Woman’s Death

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 30, 2025

Funerals, like awards shows and sporting events, become excuses for the left to force their opinions on a captive audience….

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Stranger Things Season 5: Rooting for the Villain

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 23, 2025

This holiday season, I wish for all of Vecna’s Christmas wishes to come true. My Christmas list plaintively petitions Santa…

In Memoriam

Norman Podhoretz, RIP

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 17, 2025

“I would have been hailed with approval if I had died at 50,” W. E. B. Du Bois wrote upon…