The Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 accelerated one of many dispiriting trends in American public life: the transformation of major institutions from merely biased to something approaching evil. The latest example is the vaunted Pulitzer Prizes. Pulitzer had long ago become a political rather than journalistic institution, and perhaps it always was—though it was better at hiding it at some point in the past. But while rewarding material for its political utility to the ideological project of