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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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Why?

by Daniel J. Flynn | Oct 6, 2017

A sixtysomething millionaire murdered 58 people at a concert across the street from the Mandalay Bay this week. When Stephen…

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Spies Like Us

by Daniel J. Flynn | Sep 29, 2017

Whittaker Chambers stuffed purloined papers in a pumpkin. Reality Winner shoved them in her pantyhose. Spies lack the style they…

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Obama’s Watergate

by Daniel J. Flynn | Sep 22, 2017

Vladimir Putin did not hack the election. Barack Obama did. Donald Trump said earlier this year that the Obama Administration…

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Sore Loser Hillary Broke Campaign Promise Without Winning

by Daniel J. Flynn | Sep 15, 2017

Hillary Clinton described last fall’s presidential election as a “theft” in an interview with Anderson Cooper. “I think it needs…

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9/11 Terrorists Overthrew Naive Notions of Proletarian Revolutionaries

by Daniel J. Flynn | Sep 8, 2017

The terrorists that killed 2,997 people 16 years ago Monday presented the 21st century with a radically different revolutionary than…

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After the Hurricane, the Political Storm

by Daniel J. Flynn | Sep 1, 2017

On his fourth and final voyage to the New World, an effectively stranded Christopher Columbus informed unhelpful natives that unless…

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NYC Honors Stalin Prize Winner and Soviet Spy But Wants Columbus Gone?

by Daniel J. Flynn | Aug 25, 2017

Who’s buried in Grant’s tomb? Bill de Blasio doesn’t know the correct answer to Groucho Marx’s question, but whoever it…

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Gray Lives Matter

by Daniel J. Flynn | Aug 18, 2017

For looting gold-plated shingles off the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus during their sack of Rome in 455, the Vandals…

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Silicon Valley’s Libertarian Paradise Lost

by Daniel J. Flynn | Aug 11, 2017

Beware. Big PC Bro is watching. Not since Jerry Maguire circulated his mission statement at Sports Management International has an…

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You Can Always Tell a Harvard Man…

by Daniel J. Flynn | Aug 4, 2017

Harvard University, racing ahead of America to its demographic future, admits, for the first time in its history, a majority-minority…