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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 | Nov 22, 2018

American Spectator writer Ross Kaminsky interviewed me on Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San…

by | Nov 16, 2018

Forty years ago Sunday, Jim Jones orchestrated the deaths of 918 people in Guyana. He blamed one man, also in…

by | Nov 9, 2018

Nancy Pelosi won more than 85 percent of the vote in her district on Tuesday. Donald Trump received less than…

by | Nov 5, 2018

Californians vote on Tuesday on what some see as a step to give the government free rein to make you…

by | Nov 2, 2018

“Food gentrification is those with money and satisfied choices dictating food options for those with neither,” Diane Sullivan, an anti-poverty…

by | Oct 31, 2018

Winter Hill Gang leader James “Whitey” Bulger, who once “won” a multimillion-dollar prize from the Massachusetts lottery, ran out of…

by | Oct 29, 2018

“Culpability is a tricky thing,” Julia Ioffe writes at the Washington Post. She nevertheless finds Donald Trump culpable in inspiring…

by | Oct 26, 2018

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, incapable of uttering the “T” word immediately after a bomber injured 31 in…

by | Oct 19, 2018

The question of how over 900 people came to kill themselves in the South American jungle animated the writing of…

by | Oct 15, 2018

Today marks the day I have been waiting ten years for. Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days…

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