America lost one of its sharpest satirists on January 13, 2026, when Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, died at 68 after a public battle with metastatic prostate cancer. His passing was announced by his ex-wife Shelly Miles during a livestream and was confirmed across major outlets, marking the end of a complicated and consequential life.
Dilbert wasn’t just a comic strip — for decades it held up a mirror to the cubicle-class and exposed the absurdity of corporate life in a way few could match. Adams built a career from that insight, turning workplace satire into bestselling books and a cultural touchstone long before the media decided to turn on him.
Yes, he courted controversy later in life and said things that got him canceled in 2023, but the rush to bury a man’s entire contribution because of a few incendiary comments says more about the mob than it does about Adams. Major papers and publishers moved quickly to scrub his work from shelves and syndication, an unforgiving act of cultural erasure that conservative readers saw as predictable and dangerous.
Enter Megyn Kelly, who did what decent journalists used to do: she remembered the full human being and called out the corporate press for smearing his legacy instead of treating his final words with the respect they deserved. On her program she and guest Andrew Klavan paid tribute to Adams and blasted the way outlets like People and others framed his life, a necessary reminder that media institutions often write obituaries for their own biases.
Conservatives should be unafraid to say what many of us were thinking — that cancel culture has real victims, and that a lifetime of work should not be erased to satisfy a moment of outrage. Adams’ final message, read aloud by his ex-wife, was not a manifesto of hate but a farewell from a complicated man who left behind real creative value; the proper response is to weigh a life’s work fairly, not to posture for clicks.
Megyn Kelly’s defense of Adams is emblematic of a larger fight: the fight for intellectual honesty and against a media class that reflexively kneecaps contrarian voices. Patriotically speaking, we should honor the thinker who made us laugh at bureaucracy and reminded us to question groupthink, and we should be wary when elites rush to cancel rather than to converse.
So let this moment be a lesson for hardworking Americans who still value free speech and fair play — mourn the man, celebrate the satire that once comforted cubicle sailors, and reject the media’s habit of reducing complex lives to one-dimensional headlines. The real tribute is to keep the conversation going, to defend the right to offend in the pursuit of truth, and to hold legacy outlets accountable when they choose terror over tolerance.
