Daniel J. Flynn

Daniel J. Flynn, the author of Cult City: Jim Jones, Harvey Milk, and 10 Days That Shook the World, Blue Collar Intellectuals, and other books, serves as a senior editor for the American Spectator, where he writes the Spectator A.M. daily newsletter.

Posts by Daniel J. Flynn

Why Nineteen Eighty-Four still matters

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. Continue Reading...