In Praise of Mel Gibson Mel Gibson is a hero. I do not mean he is my hero, or a hero to any particular group, but symbolically, he is an American hero. There is another symbolic American hero named Howard Roark, who, though a fictional character, is the same kind of hero as Mel Gibson.The author of the book in which Howard Roark appears is another of those same kind of heroes. Her name was Ayn Rand, and the name of the book is The Fountainhead.Ayn Rand would not have liked Mel Gibson's movie. Ayn Rand was an atheist. Mel...