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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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Tax Reforms, Not Rises, to Combat Inequality

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 14, 2019

In the wake of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez telling Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes that she wants a 70 percent income…

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Green Is the New Red

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 11, 2019

Green New Deal legislation enjoys a number of enthusiastic, high-profile supporters. This stems in large part from no such bill…

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Healthcare and the Deficit: An Opportunity for Opportunity

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 8, 2019

Creating a society with greater opportunity for all Americans ranks as the number-one challenge facing the United States. Yet, by…

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Pelosi Takes Gavel of a Very Different Congress

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jan 4, 2019

Shortly after noon Thursday, many Americans felt a weighty gloom descend upon them, an ominous sensation best articulated by Obi…

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Weird Words of the Year

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 28, 2018

Words tell us something about the speaker as well as about that spoken. The various “word of the year” choices…

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13 States Challenge Mass. Animal Rights Law

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 21, 2018

Thirteen states suing Massachusetts filed a brief petitioning the U.S. Supreme to hear their case this week. “This case affects…

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Reboots & Remakes Ruin Hollywood

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 14, 2018

We’ve seen this movie before. In fact, we’ve seen all ten of them in some form. The top-ten, box-office blockbusters…

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The Weekly Standard’s Suicide

by Daniel J. Flynn | Dec 7, 2018

Reports indicate that The Weekly Standard soon joins Life, Look, Calling All Girls, Hit Parader, George, and Oui on the…

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Censorship, Alas, Works

by Daniel J. Flynn | Nov 30, 2018

Twitter suspended Canadian feminist Meghan Murphy last week. Her offense? She wrote on the site that “men aren’t women.” A…

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Who Is John Roberts to Judge Trump?

by Daniel J. Flynn | Nov 23, 2018

“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John…