Take recent news coverage concerning the history of the American founding. A group of historians is now urging the Pulitzer committee to rescind a prize awarded this year to a writer at the New York Times. We therefore respectfully ask the New York Times to withhold any steps to publish and distribute The 1619 Project until these concerns can be addressed in a thorough and open fashion. A “sweeping, deeply reported and personal essay,” as the Pulitzer Prize Board called it, does not have the license to sweep its own errors into obscurity or the remit to publish “deeply reported” falsehoods. *** Mr. Freeman is the co-author of “The Cost: Trump, China and American Revival.” *** Follow James Freeman on Twitter.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 07, 2020 17:48 UTC