Yes, the New Yorker – of course.

As the inventory of virtue signalling flags nears depletion, the New Yorker has decided that crossword puzzles are racist.

Curious about the basis for this claim, FWIW travelled to New York’s Upper West to interview the magazine’s only black subscriber (gifted him by his adoptive white parents), Xavier Malcolm Cadwallader ()Princeton ‘21, and asked him what the beef was.

“Well, for one thing,” Mr. Cadwallader complained, “it’s written in English — that’s racist right there, am I right?. And where are the references to black culture? Where are the Ho’s, the booty, some of that crack cocaine? Y’all ever see ‘niggah’ as an answer? Gettin the free stuff at Louis Vuitton stores, or CVS? Ha!

“And that’s just for us American blacks”, he continued. “What about ‘falafel’, or ‘intifada’? I could go on, but you get it: America’s let in a whole lot of folks from other countries since 1913, but that damn NYT crossword has never offered a single clue that didn’t involve squash, Yale, or Greenwich, Connecticut. It’s racism at it’s worst, I tell you, and we damn well ain’t gonna stand fo’ it no more.”

Abashed and ashamed, we retreated to our yacht club’s men’s bar for reflection and a martini.