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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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Politicians Imitating Protestors Bad Omen for Democratic Party

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jun 13, 2025

Senator Alex Padilla crashing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Thursday press conference, shouting over her about her “exaggerations,” and pushing…

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Sly Stone, RIP

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jun 10, 2025

Reading an obituary of Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone, strikes as surreal in 2025. Didn’t he overdose in…

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Assassination Attempt on Colombian Politician Looks Familiar

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jun 8, 2025

An assailant or assailants shot Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, thought of as a likely presidential candidate in the 2026 election,…

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Conservatives Understand ‘Big’ Does Not Describe Any ‘Beautiful’ Legislation

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jun 5, 2025

“Mammoth spending bills are bankrupting America!” Elon Musk wrote over a shared tweet showing the national debt trendline resembling an…

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Loving ‘Doctor Who’ Means Cheering as the Daleks Exterminate This Woke Incarnation

by Daniel J. Flynn | May 29, 2025

This weekend, Doctor Who faces a villain more destructive than the Autons, more frightening than the Weeping Angels, and more…

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Cisgender and Latinx Democrats Agree: Ditch the Wokespeak

by Daniel J. Flynn | May 27, 2025

Do you know that you are a cis-male?” comedian Norm Macdonald asked a flummoxed Stephen Merchant, the co-creator of The…

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Political Zealotry, Like Psychopathy, Can Allow One to Murder Without Qualm

by Daniel J. Flynn | May 22, 2025

Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old man from Chicago, allegedly murdered two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington,…

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Inflation Report Has Journalists Wiping Egg Off Their Faces

by Daniel J. Flynn | May 14, 2025

May’s inflation report is eggscellent news — unless you work in journalism. The Bureau of Labor Statistics April consumer price…

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Beautiful Clothes Hide Ugly Souls at the Met Gala

by Daniel J. Flynn | May 6, 2025

How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? An ugly soul oversaw the collection of pretty people…

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David Horowitz Leaves Us Just As We Need Him Now More Than Ever

by Daniel J. Flynn | May 1, 2025

I received a copy of Heterodoxy in 1992 from a relative who picked it up at one of the two…