Our Rules

Because the system encrypts the passwords, it can only reset them. If you are logged in, you can go to your Account, select the Edit Profile tab, scroll down to the bottom, type in a new password, twice, and then click on Submit. Or if you are not logged in, you can use the Lost your password? link on the login screen. The process involves receiving an email and clicking on the link (or pasting it into the address line on the window you are using.) The link will only work once.

What you do now will depend on why your renewal did not work. If you click on the “Become a Member Today” button, you will be taken to our product page (the Join page) to select your plan. If when you click on the Start Now in the button for the plan with the payment option you prefer you get an error message, this means that you have an order in process. Otherwise, proceed through the payment process.

If you have an order in process, click on the My Account tab in the main navigation bar.  Then click on either Orders or My Subscription and you should see an Order that has a Pay button on it, needing to be paid for. Click on the Pay button and you should be taken to the Checkout page where you will need to complete the form and add or update your credit card information.

Please email us if you have any difficulties. 

If you have an active subscription: Login at HBLetter.com. Go to your Account page, which is under My Account in the navigation bar. Click on the My Subscription tab. Your subscription page will come up and show three orange buttons on the Actions line: Cancel, Change payment, and Renew Now. Click on Change payment and follow scroll down to the grey area where you can select a payment method or enter a new one. Then click on the orange Change payment method button.

Login at HBLetter.com. Go to your Account page, which is under My Account in the navigation bar. Click on Manage Your Account in the Your Subscriptions tab. You should see a popup window to the Manage Your Subscriptions portal. Enter your email address and enter the one-time code that will be emailed to you. You should now see your Manage Subscriptions window with your current subscription in a white box with some options in blue under it. Click on the white box to see your Subscription Details. Click on Cancel Subscription near the bottom of the window. You should now see the effective date of your cancellation and a place to enter your reason for cancelling if you choose. Click on Confirm Cancellation. (To change your mind and go back, click on the “X” to close the portal or on the back arrow to go to the previous window, both located at the top of the window.)

Posts to the Member Forum go up immediately, without moderation (inappropriate posts that are called to our attention are removed). Posts selected for emailing to the whole membership normally go out three times a week.

A post is either a Topic or a Reply.

Indefinitely. There are no plans to remove posts from the site.

Not per se. HBL is primarily for Objectivists. Full agreement with Objectivism is not required, but we do require that members have a serious interest in and respect for the work of Ayn Rand. We do not permit posts on the forum that attack her or sanction her enemies.

Yes, but it’s a manual process for us, so you need to email us at support@hbletter.com so we can arrange to send posts to two different addresses.

Since we are charging for membership, we have to put limits on the forwarding of HBL posts:

1. Under the “Fair Use” provision of the copyright law, you can quote a couple of paragraphs without permission. We encourage that as publicity for HBL. Please give a link to our home page (hbletter.com) and credit the post’s author.
2. Forwarding a post that you wrote: it’s your intellectual property to use as you please (but other people’s quoted statements should be excised unless you get the author’s permission). Please give a link to our home page (hbletter.com).
3. Forwarding posts written by HB or others: You may forward up to 3 individual posts to 3 individuals per month. If you want to forward more than 3 posts in one 30-day period (not counting those you wrote) simply email support and ask that the post be forwarded to so-and-so at such-and-such email address. Within reason, we’ll do that.
4. Forwarding HB’s posts to a blog or website: We normally grant permission, since it promotes HBL. Email us for permission and to get the attribution wording.

After you click on a Topic or the Add New Topic button you will get a Create New Topic window or a Reply To: window at the bottom of the screen. Click on the Add Image, Video, etc. button and then you can either drag and drop files or click on the Select Files button to browse your computer for files.

The Member Forum is “community moderated”: members use the “Report Abuse” button to let us know about any inappropriate post, and we may then decide to delete it from the Forum. Harry Binswanger does not review everything posted on the Member Forum. But from the material appearing on the Forum, he selects the posts that are emailed out, 4-5 times a week, to the membership list.

• We do not give out, rent, or sell your email address or your contact information.
• By the same token, HBL members are not permitted to cull email addresses from posts for their own group-mailings.
• There is no list of HBL members available to members. If you never post to the Member Forum, no one will know you are on HBL. You will be anonymous.
• If you post to the Member Forum, your email address will be available to readers.

Go to My Account. Click on Edit Profile. Here you can update your name, email address, profile picture, and biographical information. To update your picture, scroll down to Profile Picture and click on the Choose File button. You can then browse your computer for the file.

TOF Publications, Inc. is the name Harry Binswanger gave to the corporation formed in 1979 to publish The Objectivist Forum. TOF now also embraces HBL and other activities, including Thinking Directions, Jean Moroney Binswanger’s business.