The Nathaniel Branden Institute (originally Nathaniel Branden Lectures) was an organization founded by Nathaniel Branden in 1958 to promote Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. The institute was responsible for the many Objectivist lectures and presentations around the country. Many of those associated with NBI worked on the Objectivist magazines, The Objectivist Newsletter and The Objectivist.
NBI also issued many of the lectures and presentati...
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The Nathaniel Branden Institute (originally Nathaniel Branden Lectures) was an organization founded by Nathaniel Branden in 1958 to promote Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism. The institute was responsible for the many Objectivist lectures and presentations around the country. Many of those associated with NBI worked on the Objectivist magazines, The Objectivist Newsletter and The Objectivist.
NBI also issued many of the lectures and presentations, as well as those done by Rand to other groups, as records, which were sold/distributed around the country for those who could not get to a live NBI lecture.
There were several subsidiary companies, such as NBI Press (a publishing arm that printed a couple of plays as well as special editions of Calumet "K" and Victor Hugo's The Man Who Laughs with intros by Rand); NBI Book Service (which sold Objectivist books and books by non-Objectivists with similar views in a particular area); and NBI Art Reproductions (art by Frank O'Connor, Joan...
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