THE VIEW OF THE WORLD FROM 9th AVENUE, 2025 EDITION:

New Yorker writer claims, astonishingly, to be unaware of a single leftist celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder pic.twitter.com/MCfnaPVzKT

— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) September 15, 2025

Even with ubiquitous social media, the New Yorker has never been able to peer into its backyard:

But that’s because New Yorker staffers have always been proud to wear their blinkers: “Pauline Kael famously commented, after the 1972 Presidential election, ‘I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.’”