HBO fears we can't understand Gone with the Wind without its help

Published June 10, 2020 5:03pm ET



George Orwell did not foresee in “The Prevention of Literature” that we’d have to defend intellectual liberty against actual curators of art.

HBO Max has pulled Gone with the Wind from its platform, saying that it is a “product of its time and depicts some of the ethnic and racial prejudices that have, unfortunately, been commonplace in American society.”

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