Last week I noticed that Evelyn Waugh was trending - odd, I thought, for a man who died in 1966 - and then I discovered that it was because he had landed on Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Popular Female Writers.
It made me wonder if college English professors have stopped teaching the brilliant novelist, essayist, and travel writer because of all the trigger warnings that would have to be employed in this delicate and, consequently, benighted (not to mention humorless) age. If that is the case, students are missing out on the pleasures of reading one of the greatest - and funniest - prose stylists ever to pick up a pen, all because of political correctness.
