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J.K. Rowling Benefits Us by Pointing Out Absurdity; Efforts Have Been Made to Silence Her

J.K. Rowling Benefits Us by Pointing Out Absurdity; Efforts Have Been Made to Silence Her
British author and screenwriter J.K. Rowling poses upon arrival to attend the UK premiere of the film “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” in London on Nov. 13, 2018. Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images
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Intelligent and sensible people are faced these days with a strange dilemma: whether to argue against evident idiocies, and thereby dignify them by the effort to consider them seriously and refute them, or to ignore them as they deserve and thereby leave the field to them unopposed, as it were.

Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple
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Theodore Dalrymple is a retired doctor. He is contributing editor of the City Journal of New York and the author of 30 books, including “Life at the Bottom.” His latest book is “Embargo and Other Stories.”
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