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Flilu[D Gneisil n News of Significance DECETBER,,1988 flilu[D r The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought gUIH ha;Tu-r bee;-p;5Tmea EN lfr'erLcan ritrary. tris anthology features 26 articLes and speeches by Ayn Rand, gnEIsil a an introduction and five Ford Hal1 Forum talks by ESITSII Leonard Peikoff, and an article by Peter Schwartz. ntfusr Now availa.ble from Second Renaissance Books- _- I|llHfi ffi.# I We the Living, the movie, has pre-March openings scheduled in Santa Barbara, Dec.9 (Victoria St.); Hartford, Jan.13 (Cinema City); Seattle, Jan.27 (Neptune); PortLand, Jan. 27 (Cinema 21) i fthaca (NY), Jan. 27 (Cinemopolis) i Chicago, Jan. 27 (Facets); Will-iamstown (MA), Jan. 29 (fmages); Washington, D.C., Feb. 10 (Bi.ograph); Atl-anta, Feb. 10 (Tower Square); Denver, Feb. 18 (Ogden). I The movie of We the Living has already been widely reviewed in rnajor dailies and trade papers an-a on national radio and television. Most reviews have been highl-y positive, with many, Like the Boston Globe (9-15-88), praising it as heroic and iomantic. Especially encouraging--ana-Gfr:-sing--has been the treatment of Objectivism: few writers have used the movie as an opportunity to attack Ayn Rand. Most reviews have conveyed, accurately or even approvingl-y, important Objectivist ideas. Variety (11-14-88) wrote that "Fascist authorities quickly got wise that the film's anti-authoritarian message directed at comnunists could just as easily be meant for them"--many reviews, even The New York Times, made this point. And New York Newsday (11-25-88), calling the movie "one of the best" of 1988, stated: "fndividual rights--that's the subject of the fi1m....it is an attack against any theory that says man should exist for the state....it is a dramatic statement of the author's theory of rational selfishness, an insisLence on individual liberty over and above all restrictions invented by the coLLective mind." t The Jefferson School announces its fourth SurmnerConference, to be held August 6- 20, L989, at the University of California, San Diego. For further details, write the Jefferson School-, P.0. Box 2934, Laguna Hj.11s, CA 92654. lA two-day conference will- be held in Dallas (March 3-5) and in Ann Arbor, MI (March 31-Apri1- 2), featuring lectures by A11an Gotthelf, David Kelley, and John Ridpath. For information, contact Donald Heath in Toronto at (519) 744-9747. rThe second annual EuroCon conference, organized by European Objectivists, will be held in Amsterdam, May 26-28, 1989. The featured speaker will be A11an Gotthelf, whose topic is "Love and Philosophy: AristoLelian vs. Platonic." For information, write Klaus Nordby, Helgesensgate 84C, Oslo 0563 Norway (phonez 02-684203). r Op-Ed. The Institute's second op-ed article, "Racism on Campus" by Michael Berliner, appeared in the Orange County Register on November 18, 1988. The article traces the upsurge in campus racial incidents to ideas taught in college classrooms and to university po1-icies that encourage race-consciousness. r Campuscl-ub talks scheduled: York, David Ke11ey, January 11, "Life, tiberty, and Property." Harvard, John Ridpath, December 8, "Ayn Rand vs. Adam Smith." lRecent campus talks: Harry Binswanger at Stanford ("'Bny Anerican' is Un-American") and U.C. Berkeley ("The Is-Ought Gap"). David Kel1-ey at Harvard ("Free Wil-l'). Shoshana Knapp at Virginia ("Free Will in Literature"). Edwin Locke at'Ca1. State Long Beach and U.C.L.A. ("Animal- RighLs"). John Ridpath at Michigan ("The Value of Money"), Waterloo ("Ayn Rand vs. AdarnSmith"), and York ("Perestroika"). I To enable us to plan appropriately, please help us update our list of Objectivist students and teachers. We are interested in hearing about philosophy graduate students, phil-osophy majors (upper-division undergraduate), and high-school English and humanities teachers. We would also l-ike to learn of other high-school or cotlege faculty who have shown interest in Objectivism. Ayn Rand's Lectures on Fiction Writing (FW) and Leonard Peikoff's courses, The Philosophy of Objectivism (P0), Understanding Objectivisn (UO), Objective Comurication (OC), fntroduction to Logic (IL), Ancient Philosophy (AP), and Modern Philosophy (MP) are starting in the foll-owing areas: Ars! Course Cont6ct Arer Course Contact CA! Cgrtr lles. IL Bii! 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