Jim Thompson’s paean to Ayn Rand (“What’s the fear of Ayn Rand,” AFN, May 11) redundantly betrays his ignorance. “Atlas Shrugged” is the work of a literary hack who knew nothing about the U.S. economy ...

In Greek mythology, the giant Atlas was condemned to eternally hold up the sky as punishment for his defeat by Zeus in the Titan War. The ancient Greeks’ imagination of the Atlas Mountains in North ...