Authors

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 | Jun 13, 2025

Senator Alex Padilla crashing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Thursday press conference, shouting over her about her “exaggerations,” and pushing against federal law enforcement officers exemplified the Democratic Party’s sudden preference for stunts over substance. In the streets, activists engage…

by | Jun 10, 2025

Reading an obituary of Sylvester Stewart, better known as Sly Stone, strikes as surreal in 2025. Didn’t he overdose in 1975? No, he just disappeared from popular culture around that time and we encountered him only rarely, and then usually…

by | Jun 8, 2025

An assailant or assailants shot Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe, thought of as a likely presidential candidate in the 2026 election, in the head at a rally in the nation’s capital over the weekend. Authorities arrested a 15-year-old in possession of…

by | Jun 5, 2025

“Mammoth spending bills are bankrupting America!” Elon Musk wrote over a shared tweet showing the national debt trendline resembling an unclimbable mountain. “ENOUGH.” Musk, who heroically sacrificed millions of his own money by leading the Department of Government Efficiency, likely…

by | May 29, 2025

This weekend, Doctor Who faces a villain more destructive than the Autons, more frightening than the Weeping Angels, and more devious than Magnus Greel. A Time Lord can survive that lot. The Woke Monster? That strikes as an insurmountable adversary….

by | May 27, 2025

Do you know that you are a cis-male?” comedian Norm Macdonald asked a flummoxed Stephen Merchant, the co-creator of The Office, nine years ago. Macdonald explained of the peculiar “cis” prefix: “It’s a way of marginalizing a normal person.” At…

by | May 22, 2025

Elias Rodriguez, a 30-year-old man from Chicago, allegedly murdered two Israeli embassy staffers outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening. Rather than flee the scene, Rodriguez went into the museum, eventually pulled out a keffiyeh, admitted…

by | May 14, 2025

May’s inflation report is eggscellent news — unless you work in journalism. The Bureau of Labor Statistics April consumer price index released Wednesday notes: “Driven primarily by a 12.7-percent decrease in the index for eggs, the index for meats, poultry,…

by | May 6, 2025

How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people? An ugly soul oversaw the collection of pretty people last night at the Met Gala in Manhattan. Diana Ross wore a train larger than a train, Sabrina Carpenter attracted…

by | May 1, 2025

I received a copy of Heterodoxy in 1992 from a relative who picked it up at one of the two main Harvard Square newsstands. If it wasn’t the first conservative periodical that I had read, then it was probably the…

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