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Brendan Nyhan (; born 1978) is an American political scientist and professor at Dartmouth College. He is also a Liberalism to moderate political , author, and political columnist. He was born in Mountain View, California and now lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.
While at Swarthmore, Nyhan and Ben Fritz began the L-Word: Swarthmore's Journal of Progressive Thought. The periodical was launched in May 1997 and their goal was to provide a forum for the diversity of liberal thought which exists at the college. L Word. Information page. The last issue was in May 1998.
From 2001 to 2003, Nyhan managed new projects and then marketing and fundraising for Benetech, a Silicon Valley technology nonprofit.
From 2001 to 2004, Nyhan (with Ben Fritz and Bryan Keefer) co-edited Spinsanity, a non-partisan watchdog of political spin that was syndicated in Salon.com in 2002 on-line and The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2004 in print and on the internet. While Spinsanity was active the authors logged over four hundred articles. Spinsanity closed on January 19, 2005.
Nyhan co-authored the non-fiction political book All the President's Spin: George W. Bush, the Media and the Truth in 2004 along with Fritz and Keefer. According to reviewer John Moe the book "details how Bush and company, more than any administration in history, cherry pick information that they find helpful, regardless of how representative it is of the overall truth, and then package it with a forceful and persistent presentation that eventually takes on the patina of reality."Amazon.com. Editorial Review.
All the President's Spin reached The New York Times non-fiction paperback bestseller list as #14 in the September 5th edition.
Nyhan has also written for other political and news publications which are on-line such as American Prospect (circa 2002), Time, and others. American Prospect. Articles written by Nyhan. Nyhan, Brendan. Time, "Why the Nazi Analogy Is on the Rise," August 31, 2006. Since 2014, he has been a contributor to The New York Times blog The Upshot.
In the Fall of 2011, upon completion of his term as a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research, Nyhan joined the faculty of Dartmouth College as an assistant professor of government.
In 2018 Nyhan joined the University of Michigan as Professor of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. After a year at Michigan, Nyhan announced that he would be returning to Dartmouth in the 2019–2020 academic year, citing Dartmouth as a better fit both professionally and personally.
He has also co-authored studies on the subject of fake news. A 2018 study by Nyhan, Andrew Guess, and Jason Reifler studied "Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign". After publication, Nyhan was interviewed by NBC News, where he emphatically stated: "People got vastly more misinformation from Donald Trump than they did from fake news websites -- full stop."
TAP editor Michael Tomasky said that " the Prospect is hardly averse to criticizing liberal verities" ... but "there were a few posts in succession that struck us as either inaccurate or an effort to draw equivalencies where none existed." Tomasky said that Nyhan had made unfounded allegations for reasons of self-promotion, saying: The Prospect has always opposed a 'pox on both houses' posture, and that's what we came to believe Nyhan doing." Time, September 20, 2006, ibid.
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