Who could possibly write an article about Britain’s MI5’s decision to start recruiting gay agents, and not even casually drop the names “Philby, Burgess and McLean”?
Oh wait, I know: a contemporary Professional Journalist ™ who went to “journalism school” and learned all about “journalism” but nothing about history, culture and all that boring stuff.
And now he gets paid to write for TIME magazine. Hoorah!
Whittaker Chambers couldn’t get hired there today. Too smart, I guess.