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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.  
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by | Mar 18, 2025

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by | Mar 13, 2025

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by | Mar 11, 2025

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by | Mar 6, 2025

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by | Mar 3, 2025

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by | Feb 27, 2025

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by | Feb 25, 2025

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by | Feb 20, 2025

“I would have been hailed with approval if I had died at 50,” W.E.B. Du Bois reflected upon his 90th…

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