Daniel J. Flynn
Encyclopedia
Daniel J. Flynn is an American conservative and author of the book A Conservative History of the American Left (2008), in addition to the books Why the Left Hates America: Exposing the Lies That Have Obscured Our Nation's Greatness (2002) and Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas (2004), and the information booklet Cop Killer: How Mumia Abu-Jamal
Conned Millions Into Believing He Was Framed (1999). He is the former executive director of Accuracy in Academia
, a non-profit conservative organization that seeks to combat a perceived left-wing bias in higher education, and is also associated with Young America's Foundation
and the Leadership Institute
. He also edits the weblog FlynnFiles. Flynn occasionally fills in for Michele McPhee on WTKK
Boston
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Mumia Abu-Jamal was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner and sentenced to death. He has been described as "perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate", and his sentence is one of the most debated today...
Conned Millions Into Believing He Was Framed (1999). He is the former executive director of Accuracy in Academia
Accuracy in Academia
Accuracy in Academia is an American organization that seeks to counter perceived liberal bias in education.- Mission :AIA is described as non-profit organization, watchdog group and think tank that “wants schools [i.e., colleges and universities in the United States] to return to their traditional...
, a non-profit conservative organization that seeks to combat a perceived left-wing bias in higher education, and is also associated with Young America's Foundation
Young America's Foundation
Young America's Foundation is a conservative youth organization, founded in 1969, with a focus on sharing conservative ideas with students through conferences, campus lectures, seminars, posters, and activism initiatives.-History:...
and the Leadership Institute
Leadership Institute
The Leadership Institute is a 501 non-profit organization located in Arlington, Virginia that teaches "political technology.".The Institute was founded in 1979 by conservative activist Morton C. Blackwell...
. He also edits the weblog FlynnFiles. Flynn occasionally fills in for Michele McPhee on WTKK
WTKK
WTKK is a New England commercial talk radio station, first broadcast out of Boston on 96.9 FM beginning in 1999. It can be heard in eastern Massachusetts, the northernmost area of Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire, and southern Maine...
Boston
External links
- People for the American Way (PFA webpage giving a critical description of Flynn's group "Accuracy in Academia")
- Random House biography
- Why the Left Hates America
- 2003 Speech by Flynn given at St. Lawrence University
- Accuracy in Academia