Objectivist periodicals
[1] A number of different writers contributed articles to The Objectivist Newsletter, including Martin Anderson, Barbara Branden, Edith Efron, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen, and Leonard Peikoff.
In 1971, Rand decided on another format change, going back to a newsletter style publication, in the hope that this would allow her to reach a larger audience.
The newsletter was usually four or six pages long with a single major article per issue, plus occasional announcements and the continuing "Objectivist Calendar" entries.
Leonard Peikoff served as a contributing editor and wrote the articles for six of the newsletter's eighty-one issues.
In March 1973, Rand discovered that a sister she believed to have died was in fact still alive and in the Soviet Union.
[7] As Hessen described it, "This incident, stretching across eight months, took a heavy toll on her writing and publication schedule, which allocated no time for unexpected interruptions."
"[8] Rand attempted to bring the Letter back on schedule, but further delays occurred when she was diagnosed with lung cancer.
[9] Each issue continued to bear the date when it should have appeared on the original fortnightly schedule, with the "written later" postscript.
The Objectivist Book Service later sold reprints from The Ayn Rand Letter until shortly after that publication was discontinued.
Articles from The Objectivist Newsletter by Rand and Nathaniel Branden made up most of the content for The Virtue of Selfishness.
Reprints of Rand's articles also appeared in The Romantic Manifesto, The New Left (later revised as Return of the Primitive), Philosophy: Who Needs It, and The Voice of Reason.
When Branden signed over his interest in the company to Rand, he believed they had an understanding that he could re-use the material in his articles for his planned book, The Psychology of Self-Esteem.
Rand threatened to withhold her consent to use the material, but took no action when Branden's publisher decided to go forward anyway.
[14] In 2001, all the articles by Rand and Peikoff were incorporated into the Objectivism Research CD-ROM, a searchable e-book of their writings (which was subsequently discontinued).
The Objective Standard is a quarterly journal on culture and politics founded by Craig Biddle and Sidney J. Gunst Jr. in 2006, which describes itself as providing "commentary from an Objectivist perspective.
[19] Several fellows from the Ayn Rand Institute, such as Yaron Brook, Andrew Bernstein, Tara Smith, Elan Journo, and Alex Epstein, have written for the journal.
