This month, New York magazine’s Intelligencer ran a 7,500-word essay by Pulitzer prize-winner Andrea Long Chu, who asserts that “everyone should have access to sex-changing medical care, regardless of age, gender identity, social environment, or psychiatric history.” From this one sentence we can draw some grim but accurate conclusions about New York, the state of what passes there for intelligence, and the Pulitzer prize. ...
In fact what Chu’s essay underscores is that America is in the grips of a philosophical, even a religious crisis. It’s not really about declining church attendance, except incidentally. It goes deeper than that. It’s about our disorientation in the face of cosmic questions that Americans, of all people, cannot function without answering. We’re a country whose reason for being depends on ideas about God and human nature—rights that attach to “all men” by decree of their “creator.” And we don’t know what to believe about either anymore.
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