Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor with The American Spectator, is working on his seventh book, a biography of Frank Meyer.
Posts by Daniel J. Flynn
March 22, 2024
For the past two and a half years, Republicans have used the phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” as shorthand for a profane phrase that begins with an “F” and ends with the president’s name.
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August 30, 2023
A song addressing such salient political issues as currency debasement, the displacement of miners in our green economy, and the Fudge Rounds Question achieved a feat Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” and Miley Cyrus’s “Flowers” could not.
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June 07, 2022
June 8 marks the anniversary of George Orwell’s
Nineteen Eighty-Four. That a greater gap separates us from 1984 than 1984 from
Nineteen-Eighty Four’s 1949 publication staggers.
The book, at least in terms of pundits’ invoking it, seems so very 2022 even if the script dictated that its peak as a cultural touchstone would occur in 1984.
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