In this essay in the Raritan Quarterly, Jennifer Burns discusses her experience with the Ayn Rand Archives in Irvine, California.
I'm not sure why she considers me a leader of a "neo-Objectivist" movement.
I wish I could be as enthusiastic about the Archives as Burns is. In Ayn Rand Nation, Iris Bell is quoted as saying that she and others who were interviewed by the Archives were angered when they saw the transcripts of their interviews in 2010's 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand.
But when she saw an advanced copy of 100 Voices, she was annoyed to find that her interview had been just not abridged but expurgated. "They had managed to find all these positive things I said," which had "nothing to do with the whole feel of the conversation I had with them." Iris said she was in touch with a number of other people quoted in the book, and the same thing was done to them.
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