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RADICALS FOR CAPITALISM 213
in the bookselling business, the book included a small tear-out card
that readers could send back to receive additional information about
Rand’s philosophy. Readers drawn to her ideas would fi nd a thriving
Objectivist universe, complete with foundational texts, celebrities, and
opportunities for advanced study. Even those who did not return the
card now learned there was a community and a movement centered
around Rand. 59
Taken together, NBI and Rand’s willingness to directly engage current
events suggested a new way to be on the right. In 1955 William F. Buckley’s
National Review had brought together a variety of competing ideas,
blending libertarianism, religious traditionalism, and anti- Communism
into a creed he called “American conservatism.” For close to a decade
Buckley had monopolized discourse on the right, suggesting that his
synthesis was the only respectable and responsible way to oppose the
liberal order. Now he faced a formidable challenge from Rand. In the
wake of Atlas Shrugged Rand had come to see herself as an abstract philosopher
who might make important contributions to human knowledge.
But it was as a political philosopher that she would leave her mark
on history.
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