Improving our Universities

Via email, I have learned of an excellent way to improve our universities almost instantly: by giving their students access to The Objective Standard through their university libraries.

For the benefit of any friends of Objectivism who happen by and have not already subscribed, I post the email below.

I'm writing to ask for your assistance in getting TOS into libraries -- especially those of colleges and universities. As you know, the journal publishes articles by some of today's top Objectivist intellectuals on topics ranging from individual rights and law, to foreign policy and war, to business and economics, to science and technology, to education, to psychology, to the arts. Past issues include articles by Yaron Brook and Alex Epstein, Dianne Durante, David Harriman, Elan Journo, John Lewis, C. Bradley Thompson, Lisa VanDamme, and me; planned future issues include articles by the above writers plus Andrew Bernstein, Revital Brook, Eric Daniels, Debi Ghate, Edwin A. Locke, Keith Lockitch, Robert Mayhew, Richard M. Salsman, Larry Salzman, Mary Ann Sures, and more.

Getting this journal into libraries and onto college campuses is an effective way to spread the right ideas to those who otherwise might never discover them -- and to those who will shape the future.

Library subscriptions to TOS now include IP-recognition access, which provides password-free, instant access to the online version of thejournal from a specific range of IP addresses submitted to us by the library. On a college campus, this range may include the entire school, in which case, a subscription to the journal would mean that articles written from an Objectivist perspective would continuously stream across campus for all to read.

Please contact your local, school, or alma mater's librarian today, and encourage him to subscribe. Let him know that the journal is available through EBSCO Subscription Services (with which he'll be familiar) or directly through TOS. If your efforts result in a library purchasing a subscription, not only will you promote your values, but I will give you a complimentary one-year subscription, renewal, or gift subscription to the journal.

Thank you in advance for your efforts.

Sincerely,

Craig Biddle, Editor

The Objective Standard [bold and hyperlinks added]

If you are not yet familiar with the high level of commentary found in this journal, do yourself a favor: Go to any of the hyperlinked authors' names in the above, do some reading, and consider a subscription for yourself (or cajoling one at your university library if you are a student). And then help a college librarian near you help his students.

Hmmm. I now have a third reason to visit my old stomping grounds this week....

-- CAV