Acronyms and Alphabet soup

[Kat]

Robert Campbell provided a list of acronyms and abbreviations over in a living room discussion. I am copying them here and will add more ingredients to the soup as we go along.

AR - Ayn Rand

AS - Atlas Shrugged

ARI - Ayn Rand Institute

BB - Barbara Branden

CMS - Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ph.D.

CUI - Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand

IOS - Institute of Objectivist Studies (now TOC)

ITOE - Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand

JARS - Journal of Ayn Rand Studies

LP - Leonard Peikoff

MSK - Michael Stuart Kelly, Host of Objectivist Living

NB - Dr. Nathaniel Branden

NBI - Nathaniel Branden Institute (AR and NB's Lecture organization)

OL - Objectivist Living (you are here!)

OPAR - Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand by Leonard Peikoff

OO - Orthodox Objectivists, Randroids

OP or OMPAR - The Ominous Parallels by Leonard Peikoff

PAR - Passion of Ayn Rand, biography of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden

PARC - Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics by James Valliant, a smear campaign against the Brandens (CRAP is PARC spelled backwards)

PWNI - Philosophy Who Needs It? by Ayn Rand

RoR - Joe Rowlands' Rebirth of Reason site (rebirthofreason.com, formerly SoloHQ where MSK and I met)

SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists (Originally SoloHQ, but in December 2005 fractionated into RoR and Lindsay Perigo's SOLOPassion aka SLOP). Objectivist Living was launched around that time

TIA - The Intellectual Activist

TOC - The Objectivist Center - David Kelley's Organization

TAS - The Atlas Society (includes TOC)

TNI - The New Individualist - Magazine published by TOC

VOS - The Virtue of Selfishness by Ayn Rand

WTL - We The Living by Ayn Rand