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Sam Harris speaks with Megan Phelps-Roper about her new podcast series, “The Witch trials of J. K. Rowling.”
Megan Phelps-Roper is an author, and host of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, made with Andy Mills and Matt Boll for The Free Press. Megan was born and raised in the Westboro Baptist Church and left a life of religious extremism in 2012. She has spent the past decade using her experiences to work with schools on anti-bullying campaigns, with law enforcement organizations investigating deradicalization, and with tech companies on the intersection of safety, free speech, and the value of dialogue across ideological divides. Her journey has been chronicled in a trio of BBC documentaries, a TED talk, and her memoir Unfollow.
Podcast: The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
Twitter: @meganphelps
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