ARI Announces Three New Mini-Books

Ayn Rand, the ideals of America, and the space industry: three new mini-books announced at OCON

Three new mini-books debuted during ARI CEO Tal Tsfany’s keynote talk at Objectivist Summer Conference 2026 on June 27. Two of these short works, enriched by historical documents from the Ayn Rand Archives, explore Rand’s relationship with America and its ideals, and the third applies these principles to the space industry.

Screen Guide for Americans by Ayn Rand, with an afterword by Michael S. Berliner, is the first publication of Rand’s 1947 pamphlet to include archival facsimiles of materials that provide context for the text. In her pamphlet, Rand advised patriotic movie producers on how to defend their films against implicit unwanted communist propaganda. Berliner’s new afterword, written for this definitive edition, looks at how the “Screen Guide” related to Rand’s interest in film and political ideology, how it prefigures a profound moral issue that she explored in Atlas Shrugged and her nonfiction essays, and how she assessed the pamphlet’s impact.

While the original pamphlet was being prepared for publication, the House Committee on Un-American Activities took notice of it and invited Rand to testify. As Rand later reflected: “. . . That was the turning point for Red propaganda on the screen. It vanished after that completely. . . . And there I take credit, for the ‘Screen Guide for Americans’ did it.”

Ayn Rand’s Immigration Story: I Chose to Be an American by Agustina Vergara Cid and Brandon Lisi traces Rand’s journey from revolutionary Russia to her ultimate success as a writer in America, and includes archival facsimiles and photographs documenting her immigration process. Vergara Cid and Lisi show how Rand’s belief in America’s founding ideals sustained her through years of bureaucratic and existential hardship — and fueled her lifelong fight to defend the country she loved.

Freedom to Launch by Mike Mazza collects three essays, with a preface by the author, about the spectacular rise of the private space industry. “Set free to build and operate space launch vehicles, the private space industry has pushed the boundaries of space flight beyond what was once science fiction,” writes Mazza, who proposes reforms to further liberate the industry — ending government subsidies and securing property rights in space — that he argues would usher in the progress needed to make lunar vacations, or even trips to Mars, a reality.

All three mini-books are available now in paperback and Kindle eBook, with audiobook formats to release soon.