Already a man of the left — Dr. Flynn joined the Socialist Party in college — after graduating he became involved in the civil rights movement. There he helped organize against the city’s segregated downtown businesses, drawing threats from the mayor and a reprimand from the college president. He left in 1961 for a job at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, then another at Lake Forest College, outside Chicago. Though Dr. Flynn was based in the university’s political studies department, his writings and interests ranged widely. In between books on liberalism, world history and political censorship, he advised Australia’s prime minister on foreign policy, organized against the war in Vietnam and, in the 1990s, founded two left-wing political parties.

Source: New York Times January 25, 2021 23:58 UTC