Alfonso Jones

Bravo! The "received text" emphasis is so strange. One almost expects to hear references to Rand's books and articles plus the Objectivist Newsletter, The Objectivist and The Ayn Rand Letter as "Scripture." Presumably the Branden writings would be deemed the "Satanic verses." Alfonso (smiling - it's a joke!)

Anybody on this forum know the current status of the work in progress by Thomas and Kelley, "The Logical Structure of Objectivism?" Alfonso

The web site to this wonderful place is down. Does anybody know what happened? Are archives available someplace? Is it possible to purchase back issues? Michael Interesting. I am looking at The Intellectual Activist, a bound volume containing the issues 1979 - 1991. There is no September 1990 issue. However, the November 1989 issue contains a letter to the reader - three fairly short paragraphs - indicating that "as you have adopted 'Fact and Value' as the basis of your editorial policy, please accept my resignation from the Board of Contributing Directors." (by George Walsh, of course) Alfonso

And thank you for writing it, Barbara. Alfonso

Well, I do. I'm not a rabid anti-Branden type - actually neither rabid nor anti-Branden - and I find an electronic search often to be preferable to a physical one through pages... Want "all the occurrences of . . .?" Best way to get it. Of course, wish we had the whole body of the various periodicals, etc... not the excised versions. Alfonso.