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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comEPILOGUE: AYN RAND IN AMERICAN MEMORY 281But shortly after the book’s publication Kelley fell from grace whenhe agreed to address two libertarian forums. Rand had made clear thatlibertarians were beyond the pale, and the Ayn Rand Institute followedher lead. To Peter Schwartz, writing in the Intellectual Activist, Kelley’sappearance amounted to “moral sanction” of Rand’s enemies, and heurged that anyone who collaborated with libertarians be shunned. Kelleydefended himself with a short pamphlet circulated among friends, whichdrew a further response from Peikoff, “Fact and Value.” 4The two sides articulated clear differences. To Kelley, Objectivism was“a magnificent system of ideas. But it is not a closed system.” His outreachto libertarians was essential, he maintained, if Objectivism wasever to grow beyond its small circle of adherents. To Peikoff, spreadingObjectivism was nonsensical if the truth and validity of Rand’s ideaswas lost in the process. “Please drop out of our movement: drop AynRand, leave Objectivism alone,” he wrote. Hovering in the backgroundwas the unacknowledged issue of Kelley’s failure to publicly repudiateBarbara Branden’s memoir. Unlike the ARI top brass, Kelley consideredits contribution meaningful. And then he was on the outs, the latestcasualty of Rand’s penchant for judgment. 5Unlike Rand’s earlier victims, Kelley was largely unperturbed byhis ejection from the Objectivist inner circle. After being denied tenureat Vassar he reconstituted himself as the leader of an independentObjectivist movement, founding the Institute for Objectivist Studies in1990. His break with ARI energized emerging groups such as the magazineFull Context, whose subscribers appreciated Rand but quailed atthe demand that they accept her philosophy uncritically. Kelley’s activitiesalso helped reunite Objectivists with libertarians, many of whomremained attentive to Rand despite their dissatisfaction with the developmentsof her last years.Thenceforth ARI and the Institute for Objectivist Studies (laterrenamed the Objectivist Center and then the Atlas Society) developedalong parallel tracks. Both transformed themselves into advocacy thinktanks, seeking funding from wealthy capitalists who admired Rand’sworks. They launched newsletters, websites, and online discussionforums and held annual summer seminars on Objectivism, drawingstrength from a newly vibrant Randian subculture that rekindled itselfon the Internet. Although dogged by the same poor reputation that hadshadowed Rand and NBI, the Ayn Rand Institute benefitted greatly from