The insane ravings quoted below explain why I haven’t actually met or corresponded with an Objectivist in decades. I mean, how many are there? 500?

Also, it always struck me that they had a theory of government but no theory as to how governments are formed. They never seemed to face the hard questions like secession, federalism and state boundaries and whether there should be one world government, etc.

The first thing an archist must explain is why there should be more than one government in the world.
Update:

Steve Reed writes:

Rand didn’t address anything about this beyond generalities in a pair of essays in “The Virtue of Selfishness.” She also made a grand and historically vapid allusion in the title essay of “For the New
Intellectual”: “When attacked by a carnivorous pack, animals perish – man writes the Constitution of the United States.” That’s all she ever wrote about it.

Let me recast that question, if I may. If you’re asking, in effect, “Has any Objectivist writer provided a sound, widely accepted argument as to how a government may be formed in a legitimate manner?” … the answer, I contend, is no. Neither in nor out of academia.

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