Overview

• Daniel Flynn’s book, The Man Who Invented Conservatism, draws on hundreds of previously unseen documents from a cache of Frank S. Meyer’s papers discovered in a warehouse.
• Flynn alleges the Communist Party wrote Meyer out of its history after his break, referencing British intelligence wiretaps that captured discussions about rewriting student-movement history.
• Meyer is credited in the coverage with originating fusionism, which aligned traditionalists and libertarians within the American Right’s anti-communist coalition.
• Spectator highlights Meyer’s mid-1940s review of Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom in The New Masses as a marker of his growing doubts about Stalinism.
• The Daily Signal preview promotes a Thursday interview with Flynn and identifies him as a Hoover Institution fellow and senior editor at The American Spectator.