Prof. Wasserstein published by the ABC on Censorship

Posted by malonj9 on Thursday, March 2, 2023 in News.

The curious case of Roald Dahl: Why censorship is such a dangerous business

“Hooray for Camilla! I never thought I would find myself writing those words. But it’s hard not to take her side when it seems to me that she is exactly right. In a speech at Clarence House on 23 February, she said — actually, she’s a royal, so she “let it be known” — that she had “serious concerns about the censorship of one of her favourite authors”. She was referring, of course, to the new edition of Roald Dahl’s children’s books, which have been defanged, let’s say, by the publishers in order to make parts of them more palatable to modern consumers…”

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