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NO BANNED BOOKS THIS FALL, TAS launched No Banned Books, a provocativelytitled, ambitious pilot program comprised of a seven-part process to help students gather grassroots support from peers to lobby faculty to include Ayn Rand in curricula.
PROGRAMS
LIVING HISTORY EVENTS ONE OF TAS’ most exciting new programs is our “Living History” events. Living history has been used to introduce audiences to a variety of historically eminent figures and TAS is seizing the medium to promote Rand’s ideas.
In the first two months, TAS recruited 30 student leaders on over 25 high school and college campuses to gather over 500 signatures from classmates. We also secured twelve teacher commitments and helped coordinate a dozen studentorganized reading groups. As a result students and teachers have ordered almost 1,200 books generously provided by the Ayn Rand Institute.
Jeffrey Tucker “interviewed” Ayn Rand in front of a live Facebook audience of over 5,000 that was organized by Students for Liberty (SFL). Jeffrey and Jennifer Grossman repeated the performance at SFL’s international conference in Prague and at TurningPoint USA’s regional conference in Cleveland. Our biggest living history event took place in
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July at FreedomFest: a “debate”
ON OCTOBER 10TH, over 100 friends and supporters came together to toast the 60th anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged -- and the first annual Gala hosted by The Atlas Society.
highest ranked session and was
In addition to a keynote speech by Andy Puzder, and comedy stand-up by Grover Norquist, TAS Chairman Jay Lapeyre gave a Lifetime Achievement Award to TAS Founder, David Kelley, as he
between Ayn Rand and Benjamin Franklin (played by Mark Skousen) -- this main stage skit was the third attended by over 800 people!
looks forward to his long planned retirement. Mark your calendars for the next gala on October 10, 2018!