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The New Yorker
|March 31, 2025
The accidental inclusion of Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, in a secret group chat of senior U.S. officials has been described as a breach of national security without historical precedent. This is not the case.
1252 B.C., eastern Mediterranean, Saturday night
ODYSSEUS: O.K., we're in.
DIOMEDES: In where?
ODYSSEUS: Troy. We're inside the walls. They bought it.
MENELAUS: By the golden toenails of Athena, we're in Troy? In a freaking horse?
ODYSSEUS: Sh-h-h. Keep it down, dummy. If they hear us inside this thing, we're screwed.
MENELAUS: Says Mr. Cunning, who always has to have the bright ideas.
NEOPTOLEMUS: Says the dope who couldn't hang on to his wife in the first place. Hey, she'll always have Paris, right?
MENELAUS: To Hades with you, Neo. No wonder you got stuck in the horse's ass.
ODYSSEUS: O.K., enough. Remember, we got to wait a few hours before we get out of here and start pillaging. Till then, the Trojans have to think it's just another horse. A gift horse.
PHILOCTETES: Wise guy, huh?
ODYSSEUS: Zip it, Stinky. Everybody quiet.
Silence.
HEGSETHUS: Mmprrrh. Mmprrrh.
DIOMEDES: What's that?
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