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More oxford books @ www.OxfordeBook.comFore more urdu books visit www.4Urdu.comESSAY ON SOURCES 297Another major source of funding for Objectivist scholars is the charitable foundationof BB&T, one of the country’s largest banks. Run by John Allison, an avowedObjectivist, BB&T has stirred controversy with its grants to universities that require theteaching of Atlas Shrugged. Most of the scholars supported by BB&T are also affiliatedwith ARI in some capacity, including the Aristotelian scholar Alan Gotthelf and thephilosopher Tara Smith, who holds the BB&T Chair for the Study of Objectivism at theUniversity of Texas, Austin, and is the author of Ayn Rand’s Normative Ethics (2006).The success of Smith’s book, which received generally positive reviews from her peers,suggests that Objectivism may finally be granted a hearing by the guild of professionalphilosophers.Though orthodox Objectivist scholarship has taken important steps to engagein dialogue with the broader academic community, it remains hampered by a spiritof faction. Rand’s emphasis on judgment and moral sanction remains important tomany ARI-funded scholars, who have attacked independent outposts like the Journalof Ayn Rand Studies and are often unwilling to acknowledge the work of independentscholars. Until these disputes evolve into the more routine, measured, and impersonaldisputation of scholarly life, Objectivists will remain stigmatized within the intellectualworld.Finally, Rand has begun to find her place within the literature about conservatismand the American right that has flourished of late in the historical profession. Whenhistorians first turned their attention to the success of conservative politics and ideas,many have noted Rand’s presence among the thinkers who inspired a rising generation.Earlier work on conservatism tended to make perfunctory acknowledgment of Randor situate her as an irrelevant outcast from mainstream conservatism. George Nash’sseminal The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (1975) framedRand as an extremist outsider effectively silenced by Buckley’s National Review, an interpretationBuckley himself promoted in his fictional Getting It Right (2003). Still, formuch of this early work Rand remained a cipher. For example, Lisa McGirr’s excellentstudy, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001), inadvertentlyquotes Rand several times as she describes the libertarian worldview of Orange Countyactivists. In one of the few academic discussions of the student libertarian movement,Jonathan Schoenwald’s essay in the edited volume The Vietnam War on Campus: OtherVoices, More Distant Drums (2001) ignores Rand and identifies Murray Rothbard as thesole source of right-wing radicalism. Rand and libertarianism more generally are givena thorough, albeit brief, treatment by John Kelley in Bringing the Market Back In: ThePolitical Revitalization of Market Liberalism (1997).As historians have begun to locate the origins of conservatism in reaction against theNew Deal and thereby accord more weight to business libertarianism, Rand has emergedas a figure of greater consequence. In Invisible Hands: The Making of the ConservativeMovement from the New Deal to Reagan (2009), Kimberly Phillips-Fein asserts the centralityof libertarian businessmen to the conservative renaissance, an important newline of interpretation that is being followed by a host of emerging scholars. Phillips-Feinnotes Rand’s popularity among businessmen and describes her early political activism.Although not academic in nature, Brian Doherty’s celebratory Radicals for Capitalism: