Don’t Rewrite Books

The edits of enduring works are never, ever going to do anything other than make them worse.

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A copy of George Orwell’s 1984 at a bookstore in London, England, in 2013.

Toby Melville/Reuters

First, they came for Roald Dahl.

Anyone who thought the politically correct rewriting would stop at the irreverent author of such children’s classics as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Fantastic Mr. Fox was, of course, sadly mistaken.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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