Alan Jacobs
Opportunity Costs: What does it profit a man to defeat the Dark Lord but lose his soul?
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Originally published at Books & Culture, November/December 2005, Vol. 11, No. 6, Page 22.[1] The stab of envy came instantly, unexpectedly. I was somewhere quite new to me: on one of the enormous ferries that run between the mainland of British Columbia and Vancouver Island. As we moved westward… Read More
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© 2000 First Things 99 (January 2000): 35-38. By now most readers in this country are aware of what has come to be called the Harry Potter phenomenon. It’s hard to be unaware. Any bookstore you might care to enter is strewn with giant stacks of the Harry Potter… Read More