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Fusionism

'The Tension Between Tradition and Individualism'

Conservative founding father Frank Meyer and libertarian founding mother Rose Wilder Lane had rich, friendly debates on how much American liberty relied on old European traditions.

Daniel J. Flynn | From the November 2025 issue

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Profile-angle photo of Frank S. Meyer, facing left, smoking a cigarette, next to a separate forward-facing photo of Rose Wilder Lane, both in front of an orange background. | Illustration: Eddie Marshall | Wikimedia Commons
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Daniel J. Flynn is the author of The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer (Encounter/ISI Books). He is a senior editor at The American Spectator and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.

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