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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.com272LEGACIESconsolidation swept over the movement, spearheaded in large part bySIL. After years of irregular publication SIL severed its connection toWollstein’s Individualist, offering members in its place a subscriptionto Reason magazine. Originally started as a handmade mimeographedObjectivist newsletter out of Boston University, by 1973 Reason hadalmost six thousand subscribers, making it the most successful libertarianmagazine by far. Reason was the first libertarian magazine sinceRand’s Objectivist to garner a subscription base in the thousands. AsReason developed, fewer and fewer small homegrown libertarian magazinesappeared. Professionally produced and designed, Reason charteda careful course away from libertarian extremism toward greater mainstreamvisibility and respectability.Reason owed much of its circulation to a coup scored in 1971, whenit published Nathaniel Branden’s first post-Rand interview. As Brandenwell knew, the libertarian movement offered him a chance to refurbishhis reputation among the Objectivist rank and file. Branden was coyabout his experiences with Rand, but clearly indicated his growing differenceswith her philosophy. He still considered her “one of the greatestminds in history” and claimed, “[She is] the greatest novelist I have everread,” but he spoke frankly about the flaws he saw in her personalityand her philosophy. Branden was contrite about his own role in whathe called the “intellectual repressiveness” of NBI, and he offered his latestbook, The Disowned Self, as a way to “undo some of the damage” headmitted to “caus[ing] students of Objectivism in the past.” Though hestill considered himself an expert on psychology, Branden had lost someof his overbearing moralism. When the magazine asked if sex withoutlove was moral he responded, “What, am I your mother?” 68 The interview’soverall tone reflected the general libertarian stance toward Rand,who was now seen as a figurehead or a respected elder rather than asource of direct guidance. She was a totem and ideal to be admired,but not worshipped. Reason was interested in Rand but not beholdento her.By 1973 The Ayn Rand Letter was slipping badly. Issues were often monthsbehind schedule and Rand’s standards of discourse had plunged. In areview of John Rawls’s Theory of Justice Rand dropped the pretense that