Maybe you’ve heard of John Galt. No? Shame on you. He was the inventor of a new source of inexhaustible energy — likely fusion — which formed the basis of a new society. This was a secret place somewhere in the desolate West, far from civilization and free from the tyranny of governments. Galt’s colony was a type of Capitalist Utopia, where ethical and self-reliant people could pursue their lives under a just system of laws. Ayn Rand was an idealist. However cockeyed and romanticized Atlas Shrugged may be, it is her anthem to Liberty, perhaps eclipsed only by her earlier work We The Living. Although Rand was an avowed atheist and therefore condemned, Tom Jefferson and she would have still hit it off. Tom and his pals risked everything in defense of Liberty. Rand despised Socialism. Tom detested King George. You guess both their souls are spinning madly in the Afterlife as they witness the mess this country’s in as it sprints away from the Declaration of Independence and gang rapes the Constitution. Here’s a thought. Wonder what would happen if, magically, a new land were discovered; and the people of that land would adopt the original American principles of our Founders and defend them at all cost? Would U.S. citizens sell their stuff, forsake Oprah and the NBA and emigrate to this new place? Shoot, there wouldn’t be enough boats and planes to handle the stampede . . .well . . . as long as it had purple mountains and fruited plains and tropics and rivers and lakes and desert and beaches and seasons and wildlife and spacious skies and amber waves of grain.