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 … Continue reading How many Objectivists are there?