Way back in 2019, when I was puzzled by the hostile attitude taken by The Times of London towards Brexit—the then-prospective and now just-completed exit of Britain from the European Union—I asked a friend of mine who also knows the paper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, why it had done so? How could such a famously (or notoriously) conservative and anti-establishment newspaper mogul, who also owns The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, among others, have allowed his flagship paper in Britain to lead the charge against the Conservative government of the day? How could it have taken the side of the deep-state Euro-establishment and its sclerotic bureaucracy against the British working classes, whose favor the Murdoch papers had most often tended to seek in the past? My friend, it turned out, had asked Mr. Murdoch the same question—to which the answer was as follows: “That’s what the readers of …