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