Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Inventor of Conservatism Matt and Sam interview Daniel J. Flynn about his new book The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. Frank Meyer (Wikimedia Commons)Know Your Enemy is a podcast about the American right co-hosted by Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell. Of course, we had more to say about Meyer, and we’re devoting another episode to him, this time focused on the details of his incredible life, thanks to the publication of an extraordinary new biography of Meyer, Daniel J. Flynn’s The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer. Armed with these files, Flynn offers a vivid portrait of a brilliant, eccentric political life and mind. Listen again: “Know Your Enemy: Frank Meyer, Father of Fusionism” (November 10, 2021)Further reading:Daniel J. Flynn, The Man Who Invented Conservatism: The Unlikely Life of Frank S. Meyer (2025)Frank S. Meyer, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo (Regnery, 1962)F.A.