Order of the Phoenix Reveals All

Order of the Phoenix Reveals All
The book “The Order of the Phoenix,” the fifth novel of J.K. Rowlings’ “Harry Potter” series, is seen at a book store in a file photo. Prakash Singh/AFP via Getty Images
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J.K. Rowling—an author once beloved and now controversial—wrote “Harry Potter,” the most successful book series in the modern era. Targeted to young teens, it probably rescued literacy for an entire generation. She wrote huge books about magical worlds that valorized schooling and learning just as her audience was losing interest and technology was going a different direction.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]