Harry Potter and the Gulag

Benjamin Barton says that Harry Potter's world is a dystopia, and that Rowling is a libertarian. This strikes me as the flip side of the religious people who fear the books because they involve witchcraft. Barton doesn't hate or fear the books, but his comparison of the Magical World's president to George Bush is kind of pushing it.

That this piece is even considered for publication is another bit of evidence that our academic institutions have ceased to be serious.