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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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Campaign Crawlers

Elizabeth Warren Finished Before She Started

by Daniel J. Flynn | Feb 8, 2019

Elizabeth Warren announces her presidential candidacy in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Saturday. Trips to New Hampshire and Iowa follow immediately thereafter….

Americana

Before Northam, Democrats Didn’t Just Dress Up as Klansmen

by Daniel J. Flynn | Feb 3, 2019

When Virginia Governor Ralph Northam endorsed fourth-trimester abortions last week, nobody called for his resignation. His decision 35 years ago…

Capitol Desk

Howard Schultz Reality Checks Democrats

by Daniel J. Flynn and Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn | Feb 1, 2019

Howard Schultz, the chairman emeritus of Starbucks, ponders an independent presidential bid. Democrats dumped cold water, in a trenta-sized cup,…

Deep State

Stalinist Spy Does Not Take Secrets to the Grave

by Daniel J. Flynn | Feb 1, 2019

Morton Sobell, whose obituary noting his 101 years appeared this week in the New York Times, spied for Stalinist Russia…

Americana

‘Cult City’ in the News

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 31, 2019

Glenn Beck earlier this month broadcast an interview with me on Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days…

Flynn Files

Media Shows Its Face in Attack on Kids

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 25, 2019

If the media’s biases did not prevent it from covering the March for Life, then maybe it could have saved…

Flynn Files

Gavin Newsom’s 2020 Gimmick Masquerading as Healthcare Plan

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 24, 2019

Does the United States spend too much on healthcare or not enough? The governor of the most populous state picks…

Flynn Files

James Watson & the Two Minutes Hate

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 18, 2019

Sixty-six years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick burst into The Eagle pub in Cambridge, England, with the latter proclaiming…

Blog

Some Cultures Are More Equal Than Others

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 15, 2019

National Geographic reports of a discovery of the largest child sacrifice in human history in Peru. Carbon dating indicates the…

Blog

Stephanopoulos Is Comey’s Homie

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 15, 2019

Why not ask Corey Lewandowski to interview Donald Trump? There’s something terribly dishonest in James Comey packaging Democratic Party opposition…