Don’t Cancel Rudyard Kipling

He’s been called ‘a right-wing imperialist warmonger,’ but his great ‘Rikki-Tikki-Tavi’ shows why he’s making a comeback

Early 20th-century photo of Rudyard Kipling / Wikimedia Commons Public Domain via LAPL

Not long ago, students at a large British university painted over Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If” on a wall mural. They apparently objected not to its sentiments but to other works by its author that they saw as…