aynrand.org/impact Volume 18, Number 6, June 2012 Speaks to a More Than $370,000 Raised at Chicago Wide Array of Audiences Fundraising Dinner RI executive director A Yaron Brook has traveled n May 3 ARI held its first fundraising dinner in frequently this spring all O Chicago, titled Revolution, at Auctioned items at the Chicago over the world. He partici- the Waldorf Astoria Chicago. The event raised more fundraising dinner included: pated in debates, lectured on than $370,000 for ARI and was attended by more college campuses, sat on than a hundred people. • A first edition copy of panels and much more, dis- “We are overwhelmed by the response we • A limited-edition tenth anniversary copy of cussing topics ranging from received in Chicago,” commented Yaron Brook, Atlas Shrugged and economic his- ARI’s executive director. “For the first dinner • An original clipping from the New York tory to war and taxes. we’ve held in the Chicago area, the amount raised Times of the paperback best-seller list from Throughout his travels, Dr. Brook commu- and the enthusiasm of everyone in attendance was April 7, 1963, showing Atlas Shrugged in nicated ’s ideas and their application more than expected and deeply appreciated.” ninth place, annotated by Ayn Rand to current issues to thousands of people, ranging The evening’s speakers included businessmen, • A set of four difficult-to-find foreign from college students and academic scholars members of the media, educators and students. editions of Atlas Shrugged to business leaders and congressional staffers. • A six-night, double-occupancy stay at a Below is a sampling of Dr. Brook’s speaking luxury boutique hotel in the Florida Keys events this spring, arranged by audience type. • A six-night stay at a Four Seasons luxury vacation home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming Students and Faculty • A Heitz Winery selection of four • “Capitalism Without Guilt: The Moral Case Cabernet Sauvignons for Freedom,” New York University, New York City, April 26; Northwestern University, In addition to the items above, naming Evanston, IL, May 2; West University, rights for awards to ARI’s essay contest West Liberty, WV, May 8 winners in the Chicago area were auctioned. • “Ayn Rand’s Moral Defense of Capitalism,” Bids for each of ARI’s four essay contests Secretary of the Navy Guest Lecture, Naval started at $2,500. Naming rights for the Atlas Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal speaking at ARI’s Atlas Shrugged Shrugged essay contest drew more than Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, Febru- Revolution fundraising dinner ary 28 $10,000. • “ The Objectivist and Libertarian Critique Stephen Moore, member of the editorial Impact is pleased to announce, with of Conservatism,” Conservative Intellectual board of and senior writer for the Wall permission, the names of the individuals Tradition in America course at The Citadel, Street Journal, delivered an impassioned talk who won naming rights to the Chicago-area Charleston, SC, February 22 about the need to reduce the size of government. awards starting this year. Anthem—Dmitry • “Is Government the Problem or the Solution?,” John Allison, retired chairman and CEO of Balyasny, Balyasny Asset Management; We debate with David Callahan of Demos, BB&T Corporation and ARI board member, the Living—Capitalistpig Asset Management George Mason University, Alexandria, VA, described how Ayn Rand’s offers a LLC; The Fountainhead—anonymous; Atlas February 8 competitive advantage in business. Shrugged—anonymous. An English teacher from the Chicago area Business Leaders shared with attendees how ARI’s Free Books to Revolution dinners previously held in New York • “Capitalism Without Guilt,” Tiger 21, San Teachers program, through which we provide City, featured an auction, with proceeds benefiting Francisco, CA, March 14; New York City, free classroom sets of Anthem, We the Living, The ARI. For the first time, the auction was conducted April 22 Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged to teachers, has live [see sidebar for auctioned items]. benefited her students. One of those students was Contributors took advantage of three sponsor Scholars in attendance and described how reading Anthem levels to attend the dinner. In exchange for $25,000, • “War and Money in the Original Constitution,” offered him clarity in his thinking. attendees sponsored a table. If they contributed Liberty Fund colloquium, San Antonio, TX, The Chicago dinner, as the Atlas Shrugged continued on page 2 May 31–June 3 • “Ayn Rand’s Unique Defense of Capitalism,” BB&T Foundation Programs Conference, Clemson, SC, May 30 Internship Program Receives Applicants from Top Schools • “Why Bad Economics Won’t Go Away,” Association of Private Enterprise Education, RI’s summer internship program received ley and Queen Mary, University of London. Las Vegas, NV, April 2 A a record-breaking number of applications this The internship program takes place this month year—close to 230. This is up from almost 160 last at ARI’s headquarters in Irvine, California. Interns Policy Activists and Leaders year. “Not only are application numbers increas- will receive an immersive three-week experience • “The Morality of Tax Reform,” congressional ing,” commented Jeff Scialabba, ARI academic that combines an educational curriculum explor- briefing, Washington, D.C., May 9 programs officer, “but ing Ayn Rand’s novels, • “Why They Don’t Learn—Why Bad Econo- we’re getting more and philosophy and the mics Won’t Go Away,” congressional briefing, more applicants from applications of Rand’s Washington, D.C., February 9; Global Finan- top schools each year.” ideas to the world today cial Summit 2012, Paradise Island, Bahamas, This year’s class with a traditional intern- February 1–4 includes students from ship in a professional Harvard University, workplace. Public Outreach Georgetown University, In a future issue, • “ The First Principles,” debate with David Cal- Boston College, Emory Impact will report on lahan, ARC Chicago Speaker Series, Chicago, University, University OAC instructor Keith Lockitch (at right) discussing environmentalism with last the interns’ experience IL, March 28 of California at Berke- year’s interns this year. More Than $370,000 Raised at Chicago Fundraising Dinner, continued from page 1

Production, Consumption in both capacities.” (“Egalitarianism and Inflation” in Philosophy: Who Needs It) and Savings The idea that consumer spending drives the economy gives rise to the bizarre idea that savings In this section, Impact highlights writings from can retard economic growth. Ayn Rand rejected Ayn Rand’s corpus for fans who wish to learn this view entirely. Savings, she wrote, “can be said more about her philosophy, . The to represent the opposite of consumption: they following is a reprint of a column which origi- represent unconsumed goods. Consumption is the nally appeared in the January 2009 issue. end of production, and a dead end, as far as the productive process is concerned. The worker who yn Rand identified the idea that the consumer produces so little that he consumes everything A is the motor of the economy as one of the he earns, carries his own weight economically, most destructive and widespread errors in regard but contributes nothing to future production. The Auction items at ARI’s Atlas Shrugged Revolution fundraising dinner to the functioning of markets. This idea is behind worker who has a modest savings account, and the today’s claim that to revive the economy we only millionaire who invests a fortune (and all the men need coax consumers to start spending again. in between), are those who finance the future.” According to Ayn Rand, such a view evidences a (“Egalitarianism and Inflation”) myopic mentality. As she explains in The Voice of Reason, She writes: “Trained in college to believe that “Deferred consumption (i.e., savings) on a gigantic to look beyond the immediate moment—to look for scale is required to keep industrial production causes or to foresee consequences—is impossible, going. Savings pay for machines which enable modern men have developed context-dropping as men to produce in a day an amount of goods they their normal method of cognition. Observing a bad, would not be able to produce by hand in a year (if John Allison describes the advantages of using Objectivist principles in business small-town shopkeeper, the kind who is doomed at all). This enables the workers in turn to defer to fail, they believe—as he does—that lack of consumption and to save some of their income $50,000, they were recognized as “Atlas” level customers is his only problem; and that the question for their future needs or goals. The hallmark of an donors. Individual seats were purchased for $1,500. of the goods he sells, or where these goods come industrial society is its members’ distance from Contributors who took advantage of the “Atlas” from, has nothing to do with it. The goods, they a hand-to-mouth mode of living; the greater this level sponsorship include Dmitry Balyasny of believe, are here and will always be here. Therefore, distance, the greater men’s progress. Balyasny Asset Management LP, who sponsored they conclude, the consumer—not the producer—is “The major part of this country’s stock seed two tables; Tim Blum of HSA Commercial, Inc.; the motor of an economy. . . . is not the fortunes of the rich (who are a small and one anonymous sponsor. “But, in fact, consumers qua consumers are minority), but the savings of the middle class—i.e., ARI also received contributions at the not part of anyone’s market; qua consumers, they of responsible men who have the ability to grasp $25,000 level from Dash Financial of New York are irrelevant to economics. Nature does not grant the concept ‘future’ and to deposit one dollar (or City; Jack Miller Family Foundation of Buffalo anyone an innate title of ‘consumer’; it is a title that more) into a bank account. A man of this type saves Grove, Illinois; Evan Picoult of New York City; has to be earned—by production. Only producers money for his own future, but the bank invests his and Scott Schweighauser of Chicago. constitute a market—only men who trade products money in productive enterprises; thus, the goods he ARI expects to hold another fundraising or services for products or services. In the role of did not consume today are available to him when he dinner in Chicago next year. The Atlas Shrugged producers, they represent a market’s ‘supply’; in needs them tomorrow—and, in the meantime, these Revolution fundraising dinners in New York City the role of consumers, they represent a market’s goods serve as fuel for the country’s productive will continue this year with an event on the evening ‘demand.’ The law of supply and demand has an process.” (“The Inverted Moral Priorities” in The of Thursday, September 20. More details about the implicit subclause: that it involves the same people Voice of Reason) event will be made available soon.

Objectivist Summer Conference Next Month— An Attendee Describes His Objectivist Register Today! Conference Experience t’s not too late to register for the annual Objectivist summer confer- he Objectivist summer conference offers an unrivaled opportunity to I ence, which takes place this year, June 30–July 8, at the Sheraton T learn about Ayn Rand’s ideas from top Objectivist intellectuals and to San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, California. meet other fans of Rand’s work. The conference offers a unique opportunity to meet other fans of In this section, Godfrey Joseph, a long-time conference attendee, shares Ayn Rand. No other event brings together so many fans, scholars and what he enjoys about the Objectivist summer conference every year. Godfrey other supporters of Rand’s books and ideas. It’s the largest gathering of resides in London, United Kingdom. Objectivists in the world. During the conference, you have the opportunity to further your Impact: How long have you been attending Objectivist summer conferences? understanding of Ayn Rand’s ideas by taking the many educational courses offered on Godfrey Joseph: Since the first conference way topics that range from art, science and history to psychology and current events. back in 1983, which I still remember well. I learnt a great In addition, there is plenty of time to socialize with others who share some of your deal in those days and continue to do so today. I used to deepest values. It is common to see people enjoying conversations with other attendees sit at the front of the lecture hall and take copious notes late into the night. Those in attendance range widely in age, occupation and the number as well as not a few photos. I also met many people who of years they have been familiar with Ayn Rand’s ideas. became friends and remain so to this day. Some have only recently discovered Rand, while others have been attending the Impact: Why do you attend? Objectivist summer conference for more than two decades. Some are students still decid- GJ: In essence, for fuel and friendship. I find that, ing which career to pursue and others are well established in business, academia and not living in the , the knowledge I gain other fields. Many attendees have communicated to ARI in every year, the new friends I make and old friends I past years that they have met their closest friends and even, for meet up with help keep me informed and energized some, their significant others at the conference. (Read on this and remind me that there is hope for the future in page about why one attendee attends the conference.) terms of a rational culture. There is no event like the annual Objectivist summer confer- And wherever the conference is held, my ence. Attendees have an unrivaled opportunity to socialize, net- favorite place to be on July 4 is OCON! work and learn. If you are not able to attend the event in person, Impact: What are you most looking forward to we have livestream packages available so that you can watch the this year? events as they happen and enjoy playback until the end of July. GJ: Socializing, attending lectures by experts To register for the conference, visit objectivistconferences.com. in science, psychology, art, music and literature We hope to see you later this month! Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina, Marina Tower and enjoying sunny San Diego.

2 Q&A on ARI’s Newly Launched Junior Fellows Program s Impact reported last grants, mentoring and much more. EJ: In designing the program, we kept in A month, this summer With the Junior Fellows Program, we’re cre- mind the two intertwined goals of training and ARI will launch the Junior ating a counterpart development track—for aspir- recruitment. Projecting out across five to ten Fellows Program, a new ing intellectuals aiming to work as writers, jour- years, the Junior Fellows Program is meant to initiative by ARI which will nalists and think tank analysts. The participants help us optimize and scale up the development of offer twelve-month fellow- in the program join our staff for one year, work future policy-oriented intellectuals. Some of the ships to outstanding recent alongside ARI intellectuals and gain hands-on brightest and best alums of the program may join graduates who aspire to intel- work experience and focused skills training. ARI’s staff; some, better equipped thanks to the lectual careers influencing Impact: So you’re looking for intellectuals program, may have research interests and goals public policy debates. Impact eager to get started in a career? that take them elsewhere. recently spoke with ARI’s about this EJ: Yes. The program is for people passion- The Junior Fellows Program is an exciting new program. Mr. Journo is a fellow and direc- ate about Ayn Rand’s ideas, passionate about new component in our larger effort to foster more tor of policy research at the Institute, and also speaking up for their ideals and serious about intellectuals, reach more minds and steer the cul- teaches in the Objectivist Academic Center. exploring a career applying Objectivist ideas to ture toward a truly capitalist future. current issues. Like all of ARI’s educational initiatives, this Impact: What’s the genesis of the Junior Fellows Impact: Would you sketch out what par- one owes its existence to the commitment and Program? ticipants in the Junior Fellows Program will do financial support of ARI donors. They’re invest- Elan Journo: For twenty-plus years, through while at ARI? ing in the future of freedom. the Objectivist Academic Center and its precur- EJ: In keeping with the program’s purpose, sors, ARI has offered courses, seminars and career junior fellows will have projects that give them training to students on the path to intellectual experience in key skills and enable them to grow careers. We see that kind of investment as mission intellectually. Members of the Junior Fellows Pro- critical. For Ayn Rand’s ideas to fully enter, and gram work as research associates paired with ARI for us then to reframe, crucial debates in the cul- intellectuals, supporting large-scale policy proj- ture, we need more intellectuals, and more impact. ects through research, writing and project coordi- Producing scholarship and teaching at the nation. They also carry out writing and editing in university level are vital to changing the culture, support of ARI projects under guidance of expe- and ARI invests heavily in supporting future rienced editors, and assist in the development of Objectivist professors. At the same time, there’s audio-video programming for ARI. Moreover, the an enormous amount of intellectual work to do in educational component of the program includes the so-called public policy square. seminars, workshops, and written and oral assign- Both arenas are crucial, and in places they ments, along with individual research-writing overlap. But they differ. For instance, writing a projects in a specific area of policy. Elan Journo and ARI fellow hosted scholarly article or book requires a different skill Impact: When can people apply for the pro- a live webcast in April titled “5 Essential Tips for set from writing an effective op-ed or policy- gram? Aspiring Intellectuals.” In addition to sharing their oriented book. EJ: For next year’s cohort, we will invite tips on how to effectively fight for a rational culture, For aspiring intellectuals aiming to work applications in early 2013. We expect to have an they introduced the Junior Fellows Program and as professors, the Institute has a comprehensive intake of two to four each year. opened up the application process for the 2012–2013 career development track, encompassing OAC Impact: From ARI’s perspective, what is the program to webcast attendees. courses in philosophy and writing, scholarships, long-term vision for the Junior Fellows Program?

ARI Speakers on College Campuses RI speakers have frequented college A campuses this spring to introduce students to Ayn Rand’s radical ideas and he following is a reprint of a post from Laissez-Faire: The Uncom- their application to issues today. T promised Case for Capitalism, ARI’s newest blog, dedicated to issues ARI fellow Keith Lockitch par- relating to free markets and capitalism. This post was written by ARI ticipated in a panel at Stanford Uni- fellow Don Watkins. He and Yaron Brook, ARI executive director, are the versity in April to discuss free market authors of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big approaches to environmental issues. The Government (Palgrave Macmillan, September 18, 2012). You can visit event, titled Free Market Approaches to the blog at laissezfaireblog.com. Keith Lockitch Climate Policy, was organized by the Federalist Society, a national organization comprised of law students. May 4, 2012: Why We’re Born Poor and Why Some Become Rich Dr. Lockitch was joined on the panel by Dr. Jonathan Adler of Case West- ern Reserve University School of Law, who has written extensively on envi- One of the points I stress when I talk about entitlements ronmental jurisprudence. The event was moderated by Stanford Law School is that poverty is a production problem. What brings professor Dr. Michael Wara. a person out of poverty is more wealth. If you want to Commented Dr. Lockitch on the event: “This was a great opportunity to see poverty end—and who doesn’t?—then your main share the stage with someone who is a well-respected figure in free market envi- concern is to discover how poor individuals can produce ronmental circles and to make a uniquely Objectivist position known to a group more wealth for themselves. of bright Stanford law students.” But many people today treat poverty as a political Dr. Lockitch discussed the history of industrialization and the role that free problem to be solved by transferring wealth from people markets play in protecting civilizations from vulnerability to environmental con- who have produced it to people who haven’t. ditions. He argued that property rights should be used to solve environmental Michael Katz is one of the leading authorities on issues such as climate change, not government interference in the economy. the history of poverty and government anti-poverty efforts in America. The Also in April, ARI fellow Don Watkins spoke at Brown University and other day I started reading his book The Underserving Poor and quickly ran the University of Virginia. In his talk, titled “What’s Really Wrong with the into this line: “But poverty, after all, is about distribution; it results because Entitlement State,” Mr. Watkins discussed life in America before the entitle- some people receive a great deal less than others.” ment state and the fundamental reason people regard entitlements as the third Poverty is all about distribution? Were cavemen poor because animal rail of politics. skins and arrowheads were not evenly distributed? In May ARI senior fellow Onkar Ghate gave a lecture at the University of The truth is, we are born into poverty. Poverty is man’s natural state. He Minnesota titled “Morality and Religion.” In the talk, Dr. Ghate explored the has to use his mind to discover the capacities of the raw materials he finds in question of whether morality can exist without religion. He used the major mono- nature and then exert productive effort to transform those raw materials into theistic religions as examples to argue that not only is morality possible without wealth. He has to learn that certain berries can be eaten safely, and then he religion but that religion and morality are, in fact, incompatible because the for- has to pick them. mer rests on faith and the latter requires the use of reason. Dr. Ghate concluded To be fair to Katz, he might concede that the cure for poverty used to be his talk by outlining Rand’s scientific conception of morality. productive work. A few lines later he writes: Dr. Lockitch also recently gave a campus talk at the University of Minnesota, “Poverty is no longer natural; it is a social product. As nations emerge titled “The Real Goal of the Climate Crusade,” in which he discussed why envi- from tyranny to subsistence, gain control over the production of wealth, ronmentalists oppose every alternative form of energy proposed to replace fossil develop the ability to feed their citizens and generate surpluses, poverty fuels. Both Dr. Ghate’s and Dr. Lockitch’s talks at the University of Minnesota were streamed live over the web by the campus club that organized the event and continued on page 4 can be viewed at livestream.com/arsg. 3 From the Blog of Why Businessmen Need Philosophy

he following is an view the contents of the book and read excerpts, Here’s the abstract: excerpt from the visit whybusinessmenneedphilosophy.com. T The essays in this book are meant to serve as an blog of the expanded introduction to those ideas of Ayn Rand, which are May 8, 2012: edition of Why Busi- of particular relevance to business people. Rand nessmen Need Phi- “WBNP Reviewed in Academic Journal” was known as a spirited defender of the laissez- losophy. Published last By Debi Ghate faire free enterprise system. It is less commonly year, this collection of known that Rand was also deeply committed to essays by Ayn Rand and We’d like to alert you to a new review of Why the centrality of the enterprise of philosophy for other Objectivist writers Businessmen Need Philosophy (the full preview of both public and private life. The essays in this book offers a philosophical which is already available online free of charge) try to bridge the gap between these two aspects and moral defense of forthcoming in the journal Poiesis & Praxis: Inter- of Rand’s thought. The results of the review of capitalism—and reveals national Journal of Technology Assessment and the book are mostly positive. The review attempts the importance of consistently maintaining the Ethics of Science. The review, by Mario Garitta, to separate the different themes in the book such right principles in the corporate environment at is positive and does a good job of capturing the as the importance of philosophy in general, the importance of philosophy for business, the philo- all levels of business—from daily operations to book’s main themes and of analyzing a few of the sophical defense of the free enterprise system and essays in detail. It’s encouraging to see WBNP executive decisions. then to evaluate the evidence and arguments pre- The book was co-edited by Debi Ghate, ARI receive serious treatment in an academic journal, sented by the essayists for each claim. vice president of Education and Research, and and we invite you to read and share the piece, Richard E. Ralston, ARI publishing manager. To which is available through open access. Read the whole thing at bit.ly/wbnpreview.

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very week ARC intellectuals appear on the PJTV.com news show Front Page with Allen Barton. EVisit ARC-TV.com regularly to keep up with these and other ARC media appearances. • May 25: Yaron Brook on Front Page (“Will Greece Drop the Euro?”; “Saving Facebook: Who Is to Blame for the Facebook IPO Disaster?”; “JP Morgan Trading Loss Aftermath: Is It Really Time to Bring Back New Deal–Era Bank Regulations?”) • May 19: Elan Journo on Front Page (“Obama Slams Capitalism, Again: Private Equity in the Era of Liberal Inequity”) • May 11: Don Watkins on Front Page (“Nanny State Snack Attack: The Liberal War on Snacks and Plastic Bags”; “Inventing Julia: Obama Saves Fictitious Woman, but What About Real Women?”; “Vive le Socialisme! France Elects a Socialist President”) • May 10: Don Watkins on KFMB’s The Mike Slater Show (San Diego) (“Freedom, Dependency, and the Avengers”)

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