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Kevin Kruse’s Plagiarism Scandal: Evaluating the Evidence

According to recent reports, both Princeton and Cornell Universities have opted not to take any action over multiple instances of plagiarism by historian Kevin M. Kruse. Notably, neither university disputes that plagiarism occurs in their publicly released statements. Instead, both have issued equivocal statements signifying that they consider Kruse’s copying of texts to have been

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The Bad-Faith Defenders of Progressive Plagiarism

It’s been just over two weeks since I first called attention to signs of possible plagiarism in the works Kevin M. Kruse, a history professor and left-wing political commentator for MSNBC. Princeton University, where Kruse teaches, is reportedly conducting an investigation into the matter. Kruse’s Twitter feed, which normally contains a heavy stream of political

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When activist historians redefine ‘plagiarism’ to protect their own

So it turns out that my earlier suspicions about possible academic integrity issues in Kevin M. Kruse’s scholarship were warranted. After finding hints of borrowed textual structures and word phrasing in a 2015 book by the Princeton historian, I decided to take a closer look at some of his other work. I turned to his

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Did Kevin Kruse plagiarize an article from the New York Times?

Historian Kevin M. Kruse is perhaps best known as a contributor to the New York Times’s controversial 1619 Project, where he wrote an essay linking traffic congestion to the history of segregation. Yet it’s another connection to the New York Times that may put the Princeton University professor under the microscope – specifically his use

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Oreskes & Tyson Present a Dishonest Picture of College Faculty Bias

In their recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Reactionary Propaganda Rides Again,” scholars Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson take issue with my own analysis of faculty political ideology in the Chronicle (“Tenured Radicals are Real,” September 24, 2020). Unfortunately, most of their essay resorts to conspiratorial ad hominem attacks on me personally over

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