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One frequent criticism of ''Atlas Shrugged'' is that Ayn Rand did not create, for that novel, any truly worthy opponent for the Triumvirs of Atlantis. ''Atlas Shrugged'' has no counterpart to Ellsworth Monkton Toohey, the architecture critic of ''The New York Banner'' in Rand’s earlier novel, ''[[The Fountainhead]]''.

One frequent criticism of ''Atlas Shrugged'' is that Ayn Rand did not create, for that novel, any truly worthy opponent for the Triumvirs of Atlantis. ''Atlas Shrugged'' has no counterpart to Ellsworth Monkton Toohey, the architecture critic of ''The New York Banner'' in Rand’s earlier novel, ''[[The Fountainhead]]''.

Such a villain, if he existed in the ''Atlas Shrugged'' narrative, would be a [[George Soros]] type. Such a person might have financed Mr. Thompson’s campaign and runaway-convention drive. But later, after the whole world (apart from the United States) collapsed in the throes of the People’s State movement, this George Soros analog would be out of funds, thus out of power—and his name ''would not even be worthy of mention'' in the central narrative.

Such a villain, if he existed in the ''Atlas Shrugged'' [[narrative]], would be a [[George Soros]] type. Such a person might have financed Mr. Thompson’s campaign and runaway-convention drive. But later, after the whole world (apart from the United States) collapsed in the throes of the People’s State movement, this George Soros analog would be out of funds, thus out of power—and his name ''would not even be worthy of mention'' in the central narrative.

And even had Rand envisioned the actual mechanism of the profound changes in the governance of the United States and other countries, any savvy editor would have discouraged her from explaining it, if it did not advance the current plot.

And even had Rand envisioned the actual mechanism of the profound changes in the governance of the United States and other countries, any savvy editor would have discouraged her from explaining it, if it did not advance the current plot.