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Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey gestures while interacting with students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 12, 2018. Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images
From time to time Google invites or enjoins me to “celebrate” the 159th, the 118th, or some such birthday, usually of a person I have never heard of, and often selected (so it seems to me) as much for some demographic characteristic as for actual achievement.
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.”
