Commentary I am not a particular fan of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.” But there is one exchange between two of the characters, Bill Gorton and Mike Campbell, that has stuck with me. “How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked. “Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.” That passage has been running through my head a lot recently. I thought of it last week when I learned that Dr. Seuss Enterprises had decided to stop selling six books by the famous children’s author because—according to the bureaucrats at the concession—they depict various ethnic groups in ways that are “hurtful and wrong.” I thought of it again last week when Disney decided that some of its most popular shows did not pass muster with the woke wardens of political correctness and restricted access to Dumbo, Peter Pan, and other children’s classics because they, too, were “racially insensitive.” Closer …
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