Well, the Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced, and I am not surprised to see that Jerry Saltz, art critic for New York Magazine, has won for criticism. He does write with great “daring.” Insight? Not so much—which, of course, makes him the obvious choice. Ronan Farrow certainly deserves one for his New Yorker article on Harvey Weinstein. The New York Times also won for its reporting on Weinstein, though their handling of a report on Weinstein a decade ago should have tempered any praise for the paper today.

Remember that First Things article defending the kidnapping of a Jewish boy by the Catholic church? The piece was keyed to the English translation of Edgardo Mortara’s own account of the episode. It turns out that the account may have been altered significantly by Vittorio Messori, who translated Mortara’s original Spanish into Italian. It was Messori’s Italian version that was translated into English. David Kertzer reports in The Atlantic: “In Messori’s version of the memoir, the reader is treated to a heartwarming story of a six-year-old child who is overjoyed to be taken from his parents so that he can become a Catholic—a child who would later have an uncannily accurate memory of what had happened to him. But this is not the narrative Edgardo actually wrote. The happy version instead emerges from numerous changes to the original, including the addition and deletion of entire paragraphs—changes that are common to both published versions of the Edgardo Mortara memoir in Italian and English.”