It isn’t often that actress Whoopi Goldberg gives conservatives and centrists reason to praise her, but she was the voice of wisdom the other day in denouncing the reediting of long-published works.

In the wake of a publisher drawing a major backlash for removing supposedly “offensive” language, such as the word “fat,” from the books of children’s author Roald Dahl, Goldberg noted that a reissue of Ian Fleming’s James Bond books also is being “re-edited to remove any racist content.”