"If you are wrong, you have cheered on," she says. "You have created a climate in which whistleblowers and young people themselves are being intimidated out of raising concerns" She adds that there's been a real and rapid loss of public trust over the past few years.
Host Megan Phelps-Roper asks J.K. Rowling to respond to pushback from some of her critics. The two also discuss the difficulty of discernment—why it can be so hard to know what’s right.
Produced by Andy Mills, Matthew Boll, Megan Phelps-Roper, with special thanks to Candace Mittel Kahn and Emily Yoffe.
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