A Pulitzer rewarding slovenliness and ideological ax-grinding
(World News USA)

Confidence in institutions declines when they imprudently enlarge their missions. Empty pews rebuke churches that subordinate pastoral to political concerns. Prestige flows away from universities that prefer indoctrination to instruction. And trust evaporates when journalistic entities embrace political projects. On Monday, however, The New York Times -- technically, one of its writers -- received a Pulitzer Prize for just such an embrace. Last August, an entire Times Sunday magazine was devoted to the multi-author `1619 Project,` whose proposition -- subsequently developed in many other articles and multimedia content, and turned into a curriculum for schools -- is that the nation`s real...