For Lachlan Murdoch, this moment has been a long time coming. Assuming, of course, that his moment has actually arrived.
will become the chair of News Corp. while remaining chief executive and chair at Fox Corp., the parent of Fox News Channel.‘s eldest son the undisputed leader of the media empire his father built over decades. There’s no real sign that his siblings and former rivals James and Elisabeth contested him for the top job; James in particular has distanced himself from the company and his father’s politics for several years.
, now 92, has long had a penchant for building up his oldest children only to later undermine them — and sometimes to set them against one another — often flipping the table without notice.‘s advanced age, this might be his last power move. But there’s a reason the HBO drama ” Succession ” was often interpreted as a thinly disguised and dark satire of his family business.
Lachlan Murdoch has lived that first hand. Born in London, he grew up in New York City and attended Princeton, where he focused not on business, but philosophy. His bachelor’s thesis, titled “A Study of Freedom and Morality in Kant’s Practical Philosophy,” addressed those weighty topics alongside passages of Hindu scripture. The thesis closed on a line from the Bhagavad Gita referencing “the infinite spirit” and “the pure calm of infinity,” according to a 2019 article in The Intercept.
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