I was recently reading a Wikipedia crtique of Ayn Rand's masterpiece, Atlas Shrugged: "In the world of Atlas Shrugged, society stagnates when independent productive achievers began to be socially demonized and even punished for their accomplishments." ... "Atlas Shrugged was generally disliked by critics, ..., reviewing Atlas Shrugged for The Saturday Review, opined that the novel was written with "dazzling virtuosity" but that it was "shot through with hatred." This was echoed by Granville Hicks, writing for The New York Times Book Review, who also stated that the book was "written out of hate." The reviewer for Time magazine asked:...