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From Stalinism To Reaganism: Daniel Flynn On Frank Meyer And “Fusion” Conservatism

From Stalinism To Reaganism: Daniel Flynn On Frank Meyer And “Fusion” Conservatism

Update: 2025-11-04
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How does one man whose formative years are largely defined by five “s’s” – sex, satanism, suicide, secret agents, and Stalinism – somehow wind up as a defining intellectual behind the rise of America’s conservative movement? Daniel Flynn, a Hoover visiting fellow and author of The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer, takes us through an improbable journey that involves Princeton and Oxford, deportation, socialism, capitalism and Hayek, William F. Buckley and the founding of The National Review, Goldwater, Nixon and Reagan, plus a few unexpected cameos along the way (Bob Dylan, Joan Didion and the Berlin Wall’s architect, to name a few).  

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From Stalinism To Reaganism: Daniel Flynn On Frank Meyer And “Fusion” Conservatism

From Stalinism To Reaganism: Daniel Flynn On Frank Meyer And “Fusion” Conservatism

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