Daniel J. Flynn

DANIEL J. FLYNN, a senior editor with The American Spectator, has authored seven books, including Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas, Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco, and Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America. His articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and City Journal. He served as a reservist in the U.S. Marines, honorably discharged with the rank of sergeant, from 1994 to 2002. Flynn was selected as a Hoover Institution visiting fellow for the 2024-2025 academic year. He raises his children in Central Massachusetts and reads, writes, submerges, runs, rides, jumps, chops, and climbs at his cabin in Southern Vermont.