The Recent Controversy Over the Posthumous Editing of Roald Dahl’s Books is About Fascism and Parental Rights—Just Not in the Way You Think

Few literary scandals have unfolded in a more depressingly misguided way than the brouhaha over edits to the work of a beloved children's author made at the direction of his publisher and his estate.

ABOVE: An illustration from Roald Dahl’s The Witches (1983).

I have a very unique perspective on the recent Roald Dahl controversy—whose basic contours you can read about here—for a number of reasons:

1. I’ve been a fan of Dahl’s work for over forty years.

2. I’m enough of a Dahl fanboy that I’ve even read and enjoyed his Adult Fiction.

3. I have a terminal degree i…