Daniel J. Flynn

3 weeks ago | spectator.org | Daniel J. Flynn

“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 views the failure of Republicans to codify his cuts — and the president’s executive orders — as a betrayal. (RELATED: Bureaucracy Beats Entrepreneurship — Musk Leaves Washington)The federal debt exceeds $36 trillion.

4 weeks ago | spectator.org | Daniel J. Flynn

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.

1 month ago | spectator.org | Daniel J. Flynn

“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 least that amounts to the intent. The result of such terms marginalizes the speaker, at least when in mixed company. Self-marginalization does not work in politics. Some Democrats only recently learned this.

1 month ago | rlo.acton.org | Daniel J. Flynn

The first paragraph of Daniel J. Mahoney’s The Persistence of the Ideological Lie: The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now redeems the $29.99 price of admission.

1 month ago | spectator.org | Daniel J. Flynn

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 ‚ÄúI did this for Gaza,‚ÄĚ and then began chanting ‚ÄúFree, free Palestine!‚ÄĚ as the cops led him away in handcuffs. In other words, he exhibited pride rather than remorse.