[xp38]

I don't want the award returned. I know this goes against the grain but I like the idea of it hanging there in the NYT hallway as a permanent indictment of Duranty, the Times and the Pulitzers.

[Sal]

...a permanent indictment of Duranty, the Times and the Pulitzers.

When I hear "pulitizer prize winning Mr. Somebody", I figure Mr. Somebody is a commie shill and thereafter I ignore Mr. Somebody as a disinformation agent.

[atomic conspiracy]

I don't want the award returned. I know this goes against the grain but I like the idea of it hanging there in the NYT hallway as a permanent indictment of Duranty, the Times and the Pulitzers.

I agree. Many see revoking the prize as a righteous attempt to correct a past injustice, and I respect that view. Unfortunately, it would also distort the history of the intellectual left's complicity in Stalin's crimes, as though such a simple act of symbolism could somehow erase the monstrous results of that complicity. A permanent indictment indeed, let it stand.