Roald Dahl Rewrites: When Surrendering Discretion to DEI Consultants Goes Wrong

Roald Dahl’s children’s books were unsettling. That was the point of them.

The author enforced his own code of morality, seeing to it that the unworthies regularly met fitting fates. He properly identified the depravity of used-car salesmen in Matilda, and Mr. Wormwood gets his. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory follows a Se7en-like plot arc, the sins personified by insufferable kids dispatched in steady succession.