1. Shoshana Milgram, who has been working on a biography of Ayn Rand for at least twenty years, gave an interesting talk at OCON 2024 – “Behind the Scenes: Ayn Rand’s West Point Lecture (1974–2024).” Rand gave her Philosophy: Who Needs It? lecture there. I listened to almost all of it and no mention of any biography.
2. Multi-millionaire Objectivist supporter Carl Barney will be creating a “Great University” in March 2025 to “foster reason, objectivity, and the pursuit of truth into the American culture and, indeed, worldwide.”
3. The Ayn Rand Institute just published The Art of Thinking, transcripts of lectures by Leonard Peikoff given in 1992.
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Did she talk about the Native American cadet at West Point who was offended by her remarks? She said that Hollywood's take on Indians (then very negative) was accurate, as I recall. It created some tension, though it wasn’t mentioned in "official" accounts of the speech.
She didn’t mention that.
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