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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 | Apr 6, 2018

A telephone, not an automobile, exposed the worst parts of Ted Kennedy’s character at Chappaquiddick, a tragic episode explored on…

by | Apr 4, 2018

Tom Jackman writes in The Washington Post, “In the five decades since Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead by…

by | Mar 31, 2018

I spent a weekend earlier this month trudging through an untelevised episode of Hoarders. The home lacked electricity. The bathtub overflowed with books. One could spy the attic through the holes in the second-floor ceiling and the sky through the roof. Stacks of magazines and gizmos and gadgets from an earlier era constantly bumped into me without so much as an “excuse me.” Behind the stove, a cache of 1981 newspapers peeked out of their hiding place. Amid the madness, a meticulous ordering of the former occupant’s life revealed itself on yellow post-it notes detailing a day’s mundane activities down to the minute.

by | Mar 29, 2018

Newton, Massachusetts police arrested a disturbed man outside of a Star Market on Tuesday for twice stabbing a 79-year-old man….

by | Mar 29, 2018

Roseanne pulled monster ratings Tuesday night. More than 18 million watched for a 5.1 rating. More watched the reboot’s debut…

by | Mar 24, 2018

“I don’t know much,” Norm Macdonald explained (and repeated on subsequent occasions) in an interview last year, “but I know…

by | Mar 23, 2018

I love Bill Murray. I don’t love his remarks comparing Parkland, Florida, high school students protesting the Second Amendment to…

by | Mar 22, 2018

Prince William knighted Ringo Starr, who used the name his mother preferred—Richard Starkey—for Tuesday’s London ceremony. People who do not…

by | Mar 21, 2018

Former New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn labeled Cynthia Nixon an “unqualified lesbian” after the Sex and the City…

by | Mar 20, 2018

As Washington obsesses over alleged collusion involving the Russians and the current administration, a separate investigation in Little Rock looks…

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