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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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Democrats Blame the Victim

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jun 16, 2017

Leading Republicans graciously, and rightly, let Democrats off the hook for one of their party’s zealots opening fire on GOP…

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Comey Is Not Trump’s Homie

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jun 9, 2017

James Comey put the bureau in bureaucrat at Thursday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearings. We think of FBI agents as courageous….

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Sgt. Pepper @ 50

by Daniel J. Flynn | Jun 2, 2017

It was 70 years ago today that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely…

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Stolen Valor: The Fake History From a Real Historian That Fooled Presidents and Publishers

by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. and Daniel J. Flynn | May 25, 2017

“Thank you for providing documentation in support of your claim of having received a Purple Heart Medal,” the Veterans Administration…

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The Bayou Taliban

by Daniel J. Flynn | May 12, 2017

America slowly replaces its memorials with amnesials. The transformation means America necessarily becomes another place with hardly anyone the wiser….

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Rex Tillerson Translates ‘America First’ to Foggy Bottom Bureaucrats

by Daniel J. Flynn | May 5, 2017

Rex Tillerson confronted the Trump administration’s greatest obstacle to its foreign policy this week. The faceoff took place not in…

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More Guns, Less Crime Redux

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 28, 2017

People who hate gun violence should move to a community with a high rate of gun ownership. That’s the counterintuitive…

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Killing O’Reilly

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 21, 2017

Do we live in Idiocracy or Anchorman? The fall of Ron Burgundy Bill O’Reilly suggests the latter movie. His stiletto-heeled…

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Pilate of the Modern Soul

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 14, 2017

Christians, who celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus this weekend, still don’t know what to make of Pontius Pilate,…

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The Stupid Party Finally Gets Smart on the Court

by Daniel J. Flynn | Apr 7, 2017

Neil Gorsuch, who won unanimous approval from the Senate upon his appointment to the federal bench more than a decade…