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used her name without her supervision. In May 1965 Nathan issued a
rebuke and a warning to the campus clubs in The Objectivist Newsletter.
He and Rand were particularly concerned about the names these organizations
might choose. Nathan explained that names such as the Ayn
Rand Study Club were appropriate, whereas names such as the John
Galt Society were not. “As a fi ction character, John Galt is Miss Rand’s
property; he is not in the public domain,” Nathan argued. 10
He also spelled out the proper nomenclature for those who admired
Rand’s ideas. The term Objectivist was “ intimately and exclusively associated
with Miss Rand and me,” he wrote. “A person who is in agreement
with our philosophy should describe himself, not as an Objectivist, but
as a student or a supporter of Objectivism.” At a later date, when the
philosophy had spread farther, it might be possible for there to be more
than two Objectivists. Further, any campus club that wished to issue a
newsletter should indicate their agreement with Objectivism but make
clear that they were not offi cial representatives of the philosophy. Nathan
closed with a strong attack against another group of Rand readers, the
“craven parasites” who sought to use Objectivism for non-Objectivist
ends. Into this category fell anyone who advocated political anarchism
and anyone who tried to recruit NBI students into schemes for a new
free market nation or territory. 11
Nathan’s unease gives some indications of how the student right was
developing in the wake of Goldwater’s failed campaign. Goldwater had
been a unifying factor, a fi gurehead who drew together diverse groups
on the right and channeled their political energy into preexisting institutions.
With the collapse of Goldwater’s prospects, his young followers
scattered into different groups. Objectivists were no longer found in
Students for Goldwater, but began to form their own clubs. Anarchism
too was beginning to circulate among the more radical students, primarily
through the efforts of Murray Rothbard. In 1962 Rothbard published
his two-volume Man, Economy, and the State, an exegesis of his
mentor Ludwig Von Mises’s thought. The book was written with a concluding
set of chapters advocating anarchism, which Rothbard’s sponsors
at the Volker Fund quietly excised. Rothbard took his ideas to a
more receptive audience, founding a magazine called Left and Right that
hoped to attract student rebels from both ends of the political spectrum.
12 Although anarchism was a minority position, to say the least,
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