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 What are the real stories behind the most misunderstood and abused ideas in politics? From Conspiracy Theory to Woke to Centrism and beyond, Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey dig into the astonishing secret histories of concepts you thought you knew. Want to support us in making future seasons? There are now two ways you can help out: • Patreon – Get early episodes, live Zooms, merchandise and more from just £5 per month. • Apple Podcasts – Want everything in one place with one easy payment? Subscribe to our premium feed on Apple Podcasts for ad-free shows early and bonus editions too. From Podmasters, the makers of Oh God, What Now?, American Friction and The Bunker.Podmasters / Ian Dunt & Dorian Lynskey 2022 Politics & Government Social Sciences World
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  • Libertarianism – Part One – Enemies of the State

    Libertarianism – Part One – Enemies of the State
    11 Nov 2026
    Hello Origin Story listeners. This week we begin the long, strange tale of libertarianism and what it means to base your politics on individual freedom. To put it roughly, libertarians believe that the state is at best a necessary evil and individual sovereignty is king. These days libertarianism is largely associated with the political right but it wasn’t always like that. Starting with John Locke, the thinkers who inspired it included liberals, conservatives, anarchists and socialists. In this story, we meet French revolutionaries, British intellectuals, American abolitionists, free-trade liberals and utopian socialists, all with strong, unorthodox ideas about what the state should and should not do. Modern libertarianism begins in America after the First World War, with a loose network of malcontents later known as the Old Right. Horrified by the rise of big government in the Progressive Era and the New Deal, they want to get back to America’s first principles. In the 1940s, a slew of books from novelists and economists seed a movement committed to freedom through capitalism, forming new societies and think tanks in order to upend the status quo. You might think a fledgling crusade of mavericks with minimal political influence would stick together but libertarians do love to argue. Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek represent two very different visions of human nature and society. One person’s radical is another person’s sellout. We close part one with the arrival of Murray N. Rothbard, the hardcore “anarcho-capitalist” who will take libertarianism to extremes. Is libertarianism just the radicalised child of liberalism or something else? Why did the right to private property become seen as the cornerstone of human freedom? How did Hayek’s sober Austrian economics and Ayn Rand’s fire-breathing “individualism” come together to inspire a generation of libertarians in America? And why is it such a fractious, spiky scene? • Support Origin Story on Patreon to help the podcast AND get merch and extra material too. Reading list Books by libertarians • Frédéric Bastiat – The Law (1850) • Milton Friedman – Capitalism and Freedom (1962) • Milton and Rose Friedman – Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (1980) • F. A. Hayek – The Road to Serfdom (1944) • F. A. Hayek – The Constitution of Liberty (1960) • Rose Wilder Lane – The Discovery of Freedom: Man’s Struggle Against Authority (1943) • John Locke – Two Treatises of Government (1689) • Ludwig von Mises – Liberalism (1927/1962) • Ludwig von Mises – Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (1949) • Albert Jay Nock – Our Enemy the State (1935) • Robert Nozick – Anarchy, State, and Utopia (1974) • Isabel Paterson – The God of the Machine (1943) • Ayn Rand – The Fountainhead (1943) • Ayn Rand – Atlas Shrugged (1957) • Murray N. Rothbard – Man, Economy, and State: A Treatise on Economic Principles (1962) • Murray N. Rothbard – For a New Liberty (1973) • Murray N. Rothbard – Egalitarianism As a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (1974) • Herbert Spencer – Social Statics (1851) Books about libertarians • Brian Doherty – Radicalisms for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern • American Libertarian Movement (2007) • John Ganz – When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists and How America • Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (2025) • Anne C. Heller – Ayn Rand and the World She Made (2009) • Andrew Koppelman — Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed (2022) • Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy - An Introduction (OUP, 2002) • Jane Mayer – Dark Money: How a Secretive Group of Billionaires Is Trying to Buy Political Control in the US (2016) • Justin Raimondo – An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (2000) • Wendt, F. ‘Introduction: Rereading Nozick’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2026) • Jonathan Wolff, Robert Nozick: Property, Justice, and the Minimal State (Stanford University Press, 1991) • Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi – The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism (2023) Articles and podcasts • David Boaz – ‘A History of Libertarianism’, Libertarianism.org (15 January 1997) • Tames Boyd – ‘From Far Right to Far Left’, New York Times (6 December 1970) •Dan Falk - The Complicated Legacy of Herbert Spencer, the Man Who Coined ‘Survival of the Fittest’ • Karl Hess – ‘The Death of Politics’, Playboy (March 1969) • Rose Wilder Lane – ‘Credo’, Saturday Evening Post (7 March 1936) • Stan Lehr and Louis Rossetto – ‘The New Right Credo — Libertarianism’, New York Times (10 January 1971) • Brink Lindsey – ‘Liberaltarians’, Cato Institute (4 December, 2006) • Ryan McMaken - Five Myths about the History of Political Thought (...
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  • Rupert Murdoch – Part Two – Decline of the Digger

    Rupert Murdoch – Part Two – Decline of the Digger
    4 Nov 2026
    Hello and welcome to season 10 of Origin Story. This week we conclude the story of Rupert Murdoch, the media titan people love to hate. After a brush with bankruptcy in 1990, Murdoch came roaring back with a new focus on television around the world. In 1996, he launched Fox News under the baleful command of Roger Ailes, which became a key driver of the polarisation of America. For a period, his celebrity-loving new wife Wendi Deng and attraction to New Labour seemed to pull Murdoch himself in a more liberal direction but his innate conservatism, and the profit monster of Fox News, won out. In the 2010s, Murdoch looked truly vulnerable for the first time. Damaged by the phone-hacking crisis at his British tabloids and multiple scandals at the increasingly extreme Fox News, he downsized his empire and wrestled with a succession psychodrama of his own making. After pitting three of his children — Lachlan, Elisabeth and James — against each other for years, he finally chose an heir but the bitterness he generated in the process has had seismic ramifications for his business. Murdoch is 95 and the global edifice he has spent seven decades building looks shakier than ever. Along the way, we dig into Murdoch’s strange personality, his pugilistic deal-making, his unique parenting style, and his subtle way of exerting political influence over his outlets even when he’s half a world away. Why did one bank in Pittsburgh almost ruin Murdoch? How did Fox News go from laughing stock to kingmaker, and what has it done to America? How did the question of inheritance come to tear Murdoch’s family apart? In what ways have the personality and prejudices of one man changed the shape of the world we live in? And what happens to his kingdom after he’s gone? • Support Origin Story on Patreon to help the podcast AND get merch and extra material too. Reading list • Neil Chenoweth – Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Media Wizard (2001) • Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie – Stick It Up Your Punter! The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper (2013) • Harold Evans – Good Times, Bad Times (1983) • Robert Harris – Selling Hitler (1986) • Simon Jenkins – The Market for Glory: Fleet Street Ownership in the Twentieth Century (1986) • Andrew Marr – My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism (2004) • Andrew Neil – Full Disclosure (1996) • John Preston – Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell (2021) • William Shawcross – Murdoch (1993) • Gabriel Sherman – Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family — and the World (2026) • Michael Wolff – The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch (2010) Articles and podcasts • Anonymous, ‘The Battle for New York’, Time (17 January 1977) • Ken Auletta – ‘The Pirate’, New Yorker (6 November 1995) • Julian Barnes – ‘Union Blues’, New Yorker (14 April 2003) • McKay Coppins – ‘Growing Up Murdoch’, Atlantic (14 February 2025) • Clyde Haberman — ‘Roger Ailes, Who Built Fox News Into an Empire, Dies at 77’, New York Times (18 May 2017) • Hendrik Hertzberg – ‘Topless Tabloids of Gotham’, New Yorker (15 February 1999) • Joseph Lelyveld – ‘Murdoch Savors His British Coup’, New York Times (2 March 1986) • Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg – ‘How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World’, New York Times (3 April 2019) • Jane Martinson – ‘“We’re clearly heading towards collapse”: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang’, Observer (22 February 2025) • Andrew O’Hagan – ‘How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire — and Remade the News’, New Yorker (2 February 2026) • David Shaw – ‘Making of a Megamogul’, New York Times (26 May 1985) • Gail Sheehy – ‘A Fistful of Dollars’, Rolling Stone (14 July 1977) • Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News, written and presented by Josh Levin, Slate (2024) Written and presented by Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey. Producer: Simon Williams. Music by Jade Bailey. Art by Jim Parrett. Logo by Mischa Welsh. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Rupert Murdoch – Part One – Empire of The Sun

    Rupert Murdoch – Part One – Empire of The Sun
    28 Oct 2026
    Hello and welcome to season 10 of Origin Story. Thanks for listening and supporting our work. We kick off with the world-shaking, century-spanning story of Rupert Murdoch. No single person has ever dominated, and changed, the media landscape like Murdoch. Starting out with an inheritance of a single newspaper in Australia, within three decades he had built a global media empire through his relentless desire to win and had become the most envied, feared and hated man in the business. In part one we cover the period from 1931 to 1989. Despite being the Oxford-educated scion of Australia’s most famous journalist, Murdoch always felt like an outsider, at war with a faceless enemy called “the establishment”. As a young man, he became a major force in Australian newspapers through a combination of brute force, cunning and seemingly impossible deals. In 1968, he came to Britain to snap up the News of the World and the Sun and revolutionised tabloid newspapers with his killer instinct for what readers really wanted, however ugly. Moving to America, he applied the same populist impulse to the New York Post and inspired outrage: one critic called the paper a “force for evil”. Murdoch had a tabloid soul but craved broadsheet prestige. His purchase of the Times and Sunday Times in 1981 set off a series of dramas: the firing of beloved editor Harold Evans, the Hitler Diaries hoax and war with the print unions at Wapping. Ruthlessly unsentimental, he took the gambles and fought the battles that nobody else had the stomach for. It was in the decade of Reagan and Thatcher, both of whom he loudly supported, that Murdoch expanded his empire in all directions: a movie studio, a publishing house, satellite television stations and more. Rivals like Ted Turner and Robert Maxwell loathed him but emulated him. Even when one of his deals failed, it changed the game. He built the world’s first cross-media, intercontinental dominion. But as the 1990s dawned, this precariously funded spending spree brought Murdoch to the edge of bankruptcy. How did Rupert Murdoch’s Australian origins inform his worldview? What enabled him to consistently outwit his rivals and foes? How did he first change both the tone and the business of newspapers and then globalise the media industry? What led the New York Times to call him “the most vilified press mogul in the world today”? Why did his immense power never mute his underdog resentment? Why was it never enough? • Support Origin Story on Patreon to help the podcast AND get merch and extra material too. Reading list • Neil Chenoweth – Rupert Murdoch: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Media Wizard (2001) • Peter Chippindale and Chris Horrie – Stick It Up Your Punter! The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper (2013) • Harold Evans – Good Times, Bad Times (1983) • Robert Harris – Selling Hitler (1986) • Simon Jenkins – The Market for Glory: Fleet Street Ownership in the Twentieth Century (1986) • Andrew Marr – My Trade: A Short History of British Journalism (2004) • Andrew Neil – Full Disclosure (1996) • John Preston – Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell (2021) • William Shawcross – Murdoch (1993) • Gabriel Sherman – Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the Epic Fight to Control the Last Great Media Dynasty Broke a Family — and the World (2026) • Michael Wolff – The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch (2010) Articles and podcasts • Anonymous, ‘The Battle for New York’, Time (17 January 1977) • Ken Auletta – ‘The Pirate’, New Yorker (6 November 1995) • Julian Barnes – ‘Union Blues’, New Yorker (14 April 2003) • McKay Coppins – ‘Growing Up Murdoch’, Atlantic (14 February 2025) • Clyde Haberman — ‘Roger Ailes, Who Built Fox News Into an Empire, Dies at 77’, New York Times (18 May 2017) • Hendrik Hertzberg – ‘Topless Tabloids of Gotham’, New Yorker (15 February 1999) • Joseph Lelyveld – ‘Murdoch Savors His British Coup’, New York Times (2 March 1986) • Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg – ‘How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World’, New York Times (3 April 2019) • Jane Martinson – ‘“We’re clearly heading towards collapse”: why the Murdoch empire is about to go bang’, Observer (22 February 2025) • Andrew O’Hagan – ‘How the Murdoch Family Built an Empire — and Remade the News’, New Yorker (2 February 2026) • David Shaw – ‘Making of a Megamogul’, New York Times (26 May 1985) • Gail Sheehy – ‘A Fistful of Dollars’, Rolling Stone (14 July 1977) • Slow Burn: The Rise of Fox News, written and presented by Josh Levin, Slate (2024) Written and presented by Ian Dunt and Dorian Lynskey. Producer: Simon Williams. Music by Jade Bailey. Art by Jim Parrett. Logo by Mischa Welsh. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. ...
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