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Libertarianism – Part One – Enemies of the State

Libertarianism – Part One – Enemies of the State

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 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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