Dilbert, the put-upon chronicler of office life, has been given the pink slip. On February 26, Andrews McMeel Universal announced that it would no longer distribute the popular comic strip after its creator, Scott Adams, engaged in what many people viewed as a racist rant on his YouTube channel. Hundreds of newspapers had by then decided to quit publishing the strip. It followed an incident in which Adams, on his programme Real Coffee with Scott Adams, reacted to a survey by Rasmussan Reports that concluded only 53% of Black Americans agreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white.” If...