Volume 11, Number 7, July 2005 New Covers for Excerpt from Essays on ’s “” Ayn Rand Books Impact is pleased to reprint here the Preface that were discussed but never actualized. Part from the new book Essays ’s I of this collection ends with ’s “Anthem,” edited by Dr. Robert Mayhew. This “Anthem and ‘The Individualist Manifesto,’” excerpt indicates the topic of each essay and which compares Anthem to its “nonfiction twin is reprinted with the special permission of the brother” (in Britting’s words): Ayn Rand’s first publisher, Lexington Books. extended nonfiction es say in English, “The * * * Individualist Manifesto” (written in 1941, but uring the first never published). Dhalf of the Part II examines Anthem as a work of twentieth century, literature and as . The first chapter owing largely to of this part is Tore Boeckmann’s “Anthem as the existence of a Psychological Fantasy,” which: provides a totalitarianism detailed literary analysis of Anthem and the in Soviet Russia in tegration of its story and theme; explains why and later in Nazi Ayn Rand considered Anthem a psychological Germany, there fantasy and a poem; and compares Anthem to appeared a number another work in the genre of psychological of “anti-Utopia” fantasy, namely Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. Most com- works of fiction, continued on page 2 Dr. Robert Mayhew among the most well-known be ing ’s (1921), Aldous In the Media: Briefly Noted Huxley’s (1932) and George Orwell’s 1984 (1949). Ayn Rand’s novella Every month ARI op-eds and letters to the Anthem (1938) is a similar work (though unique editor are published in newspapers and on the in many crucial respects); but whereas We, Internet. Here are some recent highlights. Brave New World and especially 1984 have received substantial scholarly at tention, Anthem uring May and the early part of June, ARI has not. A book-length study of Anthem is long Dop-eds and letters to the editor were pub- overdue; the present collection fills this need. lished in newspapers and magazines with a com- Anthem was written in the summer bined circulation of approximately 1.7 million. of 1937, during a break Ayn Rand took from ARI speakers were also interviewed on radio 10 writing her novel . Anthem times. Here are some highlights: was first published in England in 1938, and a • Alex Epstein’s op-ed “End Social Security” revised edition appeared in the United States was published on May 7 in USA Today (the in 1946. Part I of this volume is devoted to magazine). the history of Anthem. The open ing chapter is • ’s op-ed “Death to ‘Diplomacy’ with Shoshana Milgram’s “Anthem in Manuscript: Iran” was published on May 11 in the Record of Finding the Words,” which examines the outline Bergen County, New Jersey; two days later the and draft of the novella. The second chapter is Record published Mr. Journo’s op-ed “Betraying Richard Ralston’s “Publishing Anthem,” which the Real Freedom Fighters.” describes Ayn Rand’s struggles (especially • David Holcberg and Alex Epstein coauthored an in the United States, during America’s “Red op-ed, “The Anti-Life Opposition to Embryonic Decade”) to find a publisher. A revised edition Stem Cell Research,” that was published on apitalism: The Unknown and Philos- of Anthem was published in 1946; Ayn Rand May 20 in Education Update. Cophy: Who Needs It have been issued with made hundreds of revisions in preparing it. • Dr. Edwin Locke’s op-ed “Animals’ ‘Rights’ newly designed covers, in honor of the centen- My chapter, “Anthem: ’38 & ’46,” examines Versus Man’s Rights” was published on June 8 nial of Ayn Rand’s birth. the changes she made and offers a detailed in The Providence Journal. The new covers are intended to catch the discussion of those revisions that might appear • David Holcberg’s letter to the editor, “Oriana eye of potential readers and have the same to reveal a change in philo sophical outlook. Fallaci and Freedom of Speech,” was published design motif as the paperback centennial In the fourth chapter, “Reviews of Anthem,” on June 1 in the Washington Times; his letter editions of Miss Rand’s novels, which were Michael S. Berliner surveys dozens of the “Individual Rights” (regarding the Supreme released earlier this year. New covers for the reviews Anthem received, covering those Court’s decision on marijuana) was published in rest of Ayn Rand’s nonfiction books will soon that first appeared in England in 1938 and the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 10. be finalized. up to a recent 2002 review of an audio-book • On June 13 an article in the Orange County Since bookstores order new books after version of Anthem. Although there has been Register quoted Dr. on the nomina- depleting their supply of a current edition, it a great deal of in terest in adapting Anthem tion of Christopher Cox to the position of SEC may be some months before copies of books over the years—primarily into film—there chairman. with new covers appear in your local bookstore. has unfortunately been only one adaptation. • On May 26 Dr. Gary Hull was interviewed on (You may wish to take this opportunity to pur- Jeff Britting’s “Adapting Anthem: Projects the nationally syndicated Thom Hartmann Show chase copies of editions with old covers while That Were and Might Have Been” surveys the for 30 minutes. He spoke about his new book, they are still in stock.) one realized adaptation and the many others The Abolition of Antitrust. Bookstore Lectures to Be Sold at Historic Sites

everal taped lectures by Dr. and SDr. Eric Daniels, published by the Ayn Rand Bookstore, will soon be available for sale at the gift shop of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in Williamsburg, Virginia. The lectures constitute a specially packaged series on U.S. history that the Bookstore is offering through a new reseller program. Another reseller in that program is the judgment on others, that one must be morally historic St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, Living a Rational Life tolerant of anything, that the good consists of where Patrick Henry delivered his famous “Give never distinguishing good from evil. me liberty or give me death” speech. (Among the in an Irrational Society “It is obvious who profits and who loses by items stocked at the shop is Dr. Ridpath’s lecture Each month Impact suggests readings and other such a precept. It is not justice or equal treat- “In Dawn’s Early Light: Patrick Henry—Bea- resources for fans of Ayn Rand’s fiction who wish ment that you grant to men when you abstain con for America.”) There are plans to add more to learn more about her philosophy, . equally from praising men’s virtues and from lectures to the U.S. history series and sign up more condemning men’s vices. When your impar- high-profile resellers. n a culture where many people believe that tial attitude declares, in effect, that neither the Iselfishness is evil and self-sacrifice is a noble good nor the evil may expect anything from ideal, where life-saving science and technol- you—whom do you betray and whom do you ogy are blocked because of religious dogma, encourage?” From the Ayn Rand Archives, where businessmen are persecuted because In her essay, Miss Rand discusses how to A Special Collection of the they out-compete rivals in creating valuable apply the principle of always pronouncing moral products—the question “How does one lead a judgment and the contexts and forms in which rational life in an irrational society?” remains as it is appropriate to make’s one’s evaluations relevant now as when Ayn Rand addressed it in known to others. “How Does One Lead a Ratio- Throughout 2005—the centenary of Ayn a 1962 essay. nal Life in an Irrational Society?” is reprinted Rand’s birth—Impact will showcase historic In her answer, Miss Rand confined herself in The Virtue of Selfishness. Additional essays photographs, documents and other items that to discussing one principle: “One must never that may be helpful: “What Can One Do?” and illuminate Ayn Rand’s life and achievements. fail to pronounce moral judgment.” “Don’t Let it Go” (reprinted in Philosophy: These items will also serve to give our readers She observed: “Nothing can corrupt and Who Needs It). See also: “The Cult of Moral a glimpse at some of the remarkable items on disintegrate a culture or a man’s character as Grayness” (in The Virtue of Selfishness) and deposit in the Ayn Rand Archives. thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnos- Dr. ’s course “Understanding ticism, the idea that one must never pass moral Objectivism.”

Excerpt from Essays on Ayn Rand’s Primitivism” describes the connection in Anthem between the society’s totalitarianism “Anthem,” continued from page 1. and its lack of advanced technology. parisons of Anthem with other literary works This collection contains two other essays: focus on anti-utopia fiction. This is the subject an epilogue by Harry Bin swanger, “Anthem: of the next chapter, Shoshana Milgram’s An Appreciation,” which is based on a talk the “Anthem in the Context of Related Literary author gave in New York City in 1998 as part Works: ‘We are not like our brothers,’” which of a celebration of the 60th anniver sary of the con trasts Anthem with a wide range of works: publication of Anthem; and an appendix by not only We, Brave New World and 1984, but Lindsay Joseph, “Teaching Anthem: A Guide for also H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine, Stephen High School and University Teachers,” which Vincent Benét’s “The Place of the Gods,” and should be useful not only to the growing number Frank O’Connor and Ayn Rand in 1937, in Stoney Creek, several others. of teachers who as sign Anthem in their classes Connecticut, where O’Connor was performing in summer John Lewis’s “‘Sacrilege toward the but to anyone interested in Ayn Rand’s novella. stock and Miss Rand was taking a break from The Individual’: The Anti-Pride of Thomas More’s At the time of this volume’s publication—in Fountainhead to write Anthem. Utopia and Anthem’s Radical Alternative” the centenary year of Ayn Rand’s birth—annual compares Anthem and Utopia from both the sales of Anthem have passed the 100,000 mark, point of view of literature and especially their and to tal sales have reached 3,500,000 copies. different moral . It thus provides Anthem is and deserves to be a book for all a transition from the literary compar isons times—a permanent fixture in the Western contained in the previous two chapters to the Canon. And as we are liv ing in an age when that five chapters on philo sophical themes that Canon and the civilization it embodies are under follow. Darryl Wright’s “Needs of the Psyche at tack, from within and from without, there is in Ayn Rand’s Early Ethical Thought” places no better time to study Anthem, which portrays Anthem in the context of the first stages in so simply and eloquently the foundation that the development of her moral philosophy, Western civilization requires, and what will from her arrival in the United States in 1926 result if that foundation is destroyed. through the publication of the first edition of Anthem in 1938. The next two chapters chart —Robert Mayhew the progress of the hero of Anthem, though from Seton Hall University different angles. , in “Breaking February 2005 the Metaphysical Chains of Dic tatorship: Free Will and Determinism in Anthem,” © 2005 Lexington Books reveals the relationship between determinism Reprinted by permission and dictatorship, and free will and political freedom, as found in Anthem. Greg Salmieri’s “Prometheus’ Discovery: and the Meaning of the Concept ‘I’ in Anthem” provides a detailed descrip tion of the steps required, epistemologically and morally, for Image of a manuscript page of Ayn Rand’s short novel the hero of An them to discover the concept Anthem. The Library of Congress currently houses the “I” and the moral philosophy associated with original manuscripts of Anthem and Ayn Rand’s other that concept. The last two chapters in Part II novels. The image above is a facsimile of the original The Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, (Box 1, Ayn Rand Papers, Manuscript Division. The Library focus on political philosophy. ’s “Freedom of Disassociation in Anthem” Economic and Philosophic Case for Laissez- of Congress, Washington, D.C.). In addition to facsimiles Faire (see book cover and interview with of Ayn Rand’s drafts of Anthem, the Archives also has discusses the nature, purpose and consequences author on page 3) will be published in clippings and correspondence pertaining to the book; in of the rejection, by the society in Anthem, of total, these documents take up approximately four linear the freedom to be alone. ’s September by University Press of America feet of shelf-space. “Anthem and Collectivist Regres sion into (500 pages; paperback: $34.95).

2 The New Intellectuals: Q & A With Dr. Andrew Bernstein

Dr. Bernstein is an adjunct AB: I start the historical section with a vivid AB: Yes, after I spell out the moral validation professor of philosophy portrait of life in pre-capitalist Europe. For a of , I have a polemical section that at Concordia College, long time, historians have mischaracterized this deals with three major charges: that capitalism is Pace University and State period. Marx and Engels, for instance, and a lot responsible for war, imperialism and slavery. University of New York at of their heirs, argue that there was a golden age When I was growing up in the 1960s in Purchase, where he won the of man in the old domestic cottage industry prior Brooklyn, surrounded by leftists, I constantly Outstanding Teacher of the to capitalism. What I found was that there was heard denunciations of “American imperialism.” Year award in 2004. He has unbelievably widespread destitution and poverty. So, I wanted to state the truth about the issue. also taught at Hunter College, I go on to show how the British All of my historical research confirmed that Long Island University and Marymount College, Industrial Revolution grew out of the Scottish imperialism is always motivated by statism, where he won the Outstanding Teacher of the Year Enlightenment. The Industrial Revolution including nineteenth-century European award in 1995. brought with it a marked rise in real wages and expansion into Africa and Asia. Those European He has written op-eds for ARI that have standard of living in Britain during the nineteenth expansionist nations were mixed economies— appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago century. Given the mass of evidence, it’s simply even Britain—and without exception, the push Tribune, Houston Chronicle, Baltimore Sun absurd to look back and think that Marx and toward imperialism came from the statist element and Washington Times. A frequent lecturer at Engels were right about capitalism creating the in the mixture. The liberals of the time—that Objectivist conferences, Dr. Bernstein is a member plight of workers. is, the procapitalists who believed in individual of ARI’s speakers bureau and has spoken on the I also look at the so-called Gilded Age rights—opposed imperialism. In the book I campuses of dozens of universities, including in America, during which the United States also give a few current examples, including Harvard, Stanford, Chicago and West Point. surpasses Great Britain to become the leading the Persian Gulf War and the so-called war on He is the author of “Teachers Guide to The industrial center of the world. Historians have terror. My argument is based on Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead” (published by Penguin) and has totally mischaracterized this period by calling observations in “The Roots of War” [reprinted written CliffsNotes for , The it the Gilded Age; I think its real essence is in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal], and I draw Fountainhead and Anthem. His essay “The inventiveness. And I took it upon myself to upon some of her illustrations, too. Integration of Plot and Theme in ” rename it the “Inventive Period.” In the book I Impact: What do you say in response to the appears in Essays on Ayn Rand’s “We the discuss inventors such as Edison, Bell, the Wright charge regarding slavery? Living.” (2004) His novel, Heart of a Pagan, was Brothers, Eastman, Westinghouse, and all of their AB: If you look at history, what you find is published in 2002. astounding creations. In an appendix, I describe that the abolitionist movement was a development Dr. Bernstein’s forthcoming book, The the achievements of famous industrialists who of the late-eighteenth-century Enlightenment; Capitalist Manifesto: The Historic, Economic were vilified as “robber barons”—men such as philosophically and historically, it came right out and Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire, will be Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan, Hill, Harriman. of the same premises that led to individualism and published by University Press of America. Impact capitalism. I argue that capitalism and abolitionism spoke to him about his new book and other are intellectual blood brothers. They come from writing projects. the same individualist premise, what in the * * * Enlightenment they called the “rights of man.” So Impact: Congratulations on completing your capitalism, far from being responsible for slavery book! in the American south or anywhere else, is actually Andrew Bernstein: Thank you. the cure for it. Impact: Tell me about the genesis of The Impact: It sounds as if your point is that the Capitalist Manifesto. “great disconnect”—the opposition to capitalism— AB: Even before I had read Ayn Rand at age is historically baseless. 18—back in 1968—I always loved the United AB: Exactly. And in fact, I relegate economics States. I recognized, on a sense-of-life level, that to a relatively brief section at the end of the book. America was special, that individualism was good In my view, to a significant degree, economists and that the protection of individual rights was have done their job of explaining and validating crucial. So, in writing this book I wanted to pay the workings of the free market. It’s time for the tribute to those who made America possible. To moralists to do theirs. me it was a labor of love and an act of justice. What I set out to do is to convey the Impact: Your title suggests that you intend philosophical point that the mind is man’s means to counter, at least implicitly, Marx and Engels’s of survival, and that the mind requires political and Communist Manifesto. economic freedom—in other words: capitalism. AB: That’s my goal—to stand in direct The book aims to illustrate how capitalism is the contrast and opposition to them. I would love system of the mind. for my book to appear next to Marx’s on the The more research I did, the more evidence bookshelf and then have people read both and I found validating Ayn Rand’s observations on decide for themselves which book makes the capitalism! The funny thing is that it was so better case for its conclusions about capitalism. striking, I actually wondered if I had gone astray. With the subtitle [The Historic, Economic and At a certain point, I asked myself: “Am I crazy?! The book is available from the Ayn Rand Bookstore ($34.95; Philosophic Case for Laissez-Faire], I am How could professional historians regard pre- University Press of America; ISBN: 0-7618-32-1). stressing that my approach is interdisciplinary, capitalist Europe as a golden age, or the late in the sense that capitalism can be and needs nineteenth century as a gilded age or the great to be validated in terms of its history, its Impact: Who is Harriman? The name doesn’t industrialists as robber barons, when there is a economics, and most important, of course, its ring a bell. mountain of evidence to the contrary?” moral philosophy. To motivate the reader and AB: Edward Harriman. At the turn of the Impact: Why do you think they misidentify set up the book, I ask a simple question in the twentieth century he was recognized as an equal the essence of capitalism? introduction: If capitalism has been so successful of Rockefeller’s, but by the turn of the twenty- AB: In a nutshell, the opposition to capitalism economically, why is it condemned? first century he was completely forgotten. has little to do with the facts, and everything I call this paradox the “great disconnect.” Harriman’s achievements are just amazing, and I to do with philosophy. Despite their apparent The empirical data demonstrating the efficiency focused on him in my course [“‘Robber Barons’ differences, the intellectuals have one thing in of capitalism is unmistakable. For instance, as Productive Geniuses,” presented at Objectivist common. They share a specific philosophical capitalistic countries all over the world—from Summer Conference 2004]. Few educated people outlook; they’re all part of the altruist-collectivist- Western Europe to North America to the Asian today know about the lives and achievements of statist axis. No one with such underlying Tigers [Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc.]—are the men like Harriman or James Watt, individuals philosophical premises can appreciate the moral freest in the world and the wealthiest countries who were born to abject poverty, educated greatness of capitalism. Most history professors, in history. Noncapitalist countries today, or themselves and went on to build the industrial like many in the humanities, are leftists. They’re in the past, are all politically repressed and foundations of the modern world. Schools and either not interested in studying the history of economically destitute. If you went by the universities don’t teach such facts—or they capitalism—or they distort it. evidence, then, capitalism should be beloved— denigrate the capitalists. Impact: What sort of readers are you hoping but intellectuals across the spectrum hate it. My argument in the book is that when you will pick up the book? I illustrate this with quotes from Marx and look at the actual achievements of these magnates, AB: I see it as a crossover book. It’s published Engels, Pope John Paul II and American liberal you can see how unjust it is to call them “robber by a university press, so they will market it to historians, such as Charles Beard. So, I ask barons.” They are some of the greatest productive college professors and libraries. And then it is my the reader: What’s responsible for the great geniuses in the history of mankind. agent’s job to get me on national TV so that the disconnect between the facts and the evaluation? Impact: Do you address any of the common book can reach the mainstream. Impact: Could you describe some of the charges leveled against capitalism, such as that it The audience I assumed in writing the book is historical evidence you present in the book? leads to wars? continued on page 4 3 The New Intellectuals: Q & A With advances in the humanities and they had inherited those that thwart it. Another book I plan to write some science, and although much was lost in the is a literary and philosophical analysis of The Dr. Andrew Bernstein, continued from page 3 following centuries, the technological decline was Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. That will be not that steep. So, in my essay on Anthem, I try to fun! Again, like the book on capitalism, it will be the rational mind anywhere and anytime, whether explain why a collectivist society would give rise a labor of love. And, eventually, I’ll get back to professional intellectual or intelligent layman. The to a primitive future. writing fiction. The thing that I love about writing book is very inductive in the sense of having lots I have to say: I love writing about Ayn Rand’s fiction is that you’re like God—you can create of examples from which I draw the principles. It novels. What could be better than to be paid to do your own universe! is written in my style and is meant to be engaging, that? * * * not dry and academic. All the bibliographic notes Impact: Which of her books did you first Announcements and footnotes are at the back of the book, for those read? who are interested. I think everybody can learn a AB: We the Living. I had a high school Applications to the OAC The Objectivist Aca- lot from the book. teacher who was an Objectivist, and he introduced demic Center is accepting applications for the Impact: What’s next, after The Capitalist me to Ayn Rand’s novels. I’ve loved them ever 2005–06 academic year. The deadline is August Manifesto? since. 1. The OAC offers a systematic program of AB: Now I am working on finishing I’ve always been a bookworm and literature instruction in the essentials of Objectivism and Objectivism in One Lesson, my introductory text has always been my first love. When I was a kid, in the nature of objective thought and communi- on Objectivism. The inspiration for the book’s title the two things I loved the most were literature and cation. For information about the OAC, and to and method comes from Henry Hazlitt’s classic sports. I spent the days of my summers playing apply, please visit our Web site: www.aynrand. free-market book Economics in One Lesson. baseball, and the nights reading books. org/academic. The idea is to encapsulate Objectivism into one Impact: Do you have opportunities to discuss memorable lesson, to show how it is the system Ayn Rand’s ideas in the university courses that Job Opportunities ARI is currently recruiting of reason. For instance, in politics the Objectivist you teach? a Web Specialist, HR/Legal Assistant, Educa- argument is that the government should protect AB: Yes. At S.U.N.Y., Purchase, for instance, tion Department Assistant and Administrative individual rights, because to live, men must be free I teach “Understanding Moral Problems.” I have Assistant—Mailroom. For full details, including to act on their rational judgment. students read Plato, Aristotle, the Bible, Marx and information on how to apply, please visit: www. This book is intended for the intelligent Engels, and The Fountainhead. Then we take aynrand.org/employment. layman: from a bright 16-year-old high school each moral theory and apply it to topical issues Impact is published monthly by the Ayn Rand® Institute (ARI) and is student to a businessman who knows nothing such as abortion and the war on terror. 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Second Renaissance, Inc., and the Ayn Rand Institute do not necessarily endorse the content of the lectures and of editing it now. I hope to have a completed draft AB: I try to crowd my teaching into a couple courses offered. All photos of Ayn Rand are used by permission of the ready by the end of 2005. of days a week. I’ve got a lot of energy, so I’m Estate of Ayn Rand. Purchases from the Ayn Rand Bookstore do not Impact: I believe that you contributed to willing to teach the whole day Monday and qualify as tax-deductible contributions to the Ayn Rand Institute. the forthcoming book Essays on Ayn Rand’s Wednesday. Then Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, Editor: Elan Journo Assistant Editor: Dan Norton Editorial Advisors: Dr. Yaron Brook, Mark Chapman, Anu Seppala “Anthem,” which Robert Mayhew is editing? I can spend the whole day writing. Regarding Designer: Simon Federman Printing: David Antonacci AB: Yes, my essay aims to explain why the campus club lecturing, it looks like a lot, but Copy Editor: Donna Montrezza future Dark Ages projected in Anthem are so dark! it’s not that many trips. ARI arranges it so that I Headquarters: 2121 Alton Parkway, Suite 250 That world has fallen a long way. It comes after speak at a few universities that are close to each Irvine, CA 92606-4926 Phone: 949-222-6550 Fax: 949-222-6558 a fully developed industrial civilization, which other whenever I travel somewhere. So I do little © The Ayn Rand Institute 2005. All rights reserved. Not to be reproduced without permission. had advanced at least to the point of harnessing mini-tours. electricity. The decline from light bulbs to candles Impact: In closing, are there any future is really precipitous! You can see that, if you projects that you can tell us about? compare it to the actual technological decline of AB: I definitely want to write a book on Western civilization into the Dark Ages. Although the philosophical foundations of heroism, on the the ancient Romans, for example, had made philosophical principles that make it possible and Commentary: New Books

Each month Impact features a regular Directly or indirectly and to varying column by the Institute’s executive director, degrees, ARI has helped make such books Dr. Yaron Brook, who looks at the wider possible. Of the books I have mentioned, the context of ARI’s activities. first five all relied on materials on deposit at the Ayn Rand Archives, a special collection he library of secondary literature on of the Institute. ARI has provided financial TAyn Rand and her ideas continues to grow. support to fund the writing of several books This year, the centenary of her birth, will see (and continues to fund others in the works). the publication of five new books: Ayn Rand, Some of the writers whose work I have an illustrated biography (by Jeff Britting); mentioned above have studied at ARI and/or Ayn Rand and “Song of Russia” (by taught at Objectivist conferences, where they Dr. Robert Mayhew); The Passion of had the opportunity to hone material for their Ayn Rand’s Critics (by James Valliant); writing projects. Essays on Ayn Rand’s “Anthem” and Ayn Rand To help encourage new writers, we are Answers (both edited by Dr. Mayhew). Other also investing in and fostering New Intellectu- books dealing with her life, her writings and als. The Objectivist Academic Center trains applications of her views are in the works. In aspiring intellectuals in the essentials of a related category—books in particular fields Ayn Rand’s philosophy and in the skills written by Objectivist intellectuals—this year required for effective communication. we will see three new titles: The Abolition of Through a large array of grants and scholar- Antitrust (a collection of essays edited by ships, we help intellectuals by giving them the Dr. Gary Hull), The Capitalist Manifesto time to produce new work. (Through other (Dr. Andrew Bernstein; see page 3) and Mar- ARI projects, we work to recruit students kets Don’t Fail! (Dr. Brian Simpson). for the OAC, for example by promoting our The publication of so much new work is courses to campus Objectivist clubs and past exhilarating—and vitally important. Books entrants of our student essay contests.) about Ayn Rand and books taking her phi- In these and allied ways, ARI is put- losophy as a basic framework are key to ting your financial contributions to work so advancing ARI’s mission. A body of seri- that we can effect large-scale and long-term ous literature on Miss Rand’s life, writings changes in the culture. We want to make sure and intellectual development is valuable, for there is a steadily growing number of new example, in propelling her ideas into college books every year. Such works can pave the classrooms. Books that seek to apply her phi- way to a future shaped by reason. losophy to particular fields help to indicate the value of her ideas in practice. —Yaron Brook

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