Princeton Plagiarism

Twitter's most sanctimonious academic prick gets caught with his hand in the cookie jar

This is a short Karlstack article because I am not the person who did the legwork, the credit for finding and developing this story goes to Phil Magness, a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. About an hour ago, Magness published this article in Reason:

reason @reason

Princeton historian @KevinMKruse's PhD thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people's work

reason.comIs Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?Princeton historian Kevin Kruse’s PhD thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people’s work

Dinesh D'Souza @DineshDSouza

Historian ⁦@KevinMKruse⁩ says plagiarism is a firing offense because it amounts to stealing someone else’s work. Here’s smoking-gun evidence that Kruse himself is a plagiarist and a thief. What now should Princeton do with him? ⁦@PhilWMagness⁩

reason.comIs Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?Princeton historian Kevin Kruse’s PhD thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people’s work

I am jealous of this scoop because it would have made a great Karlstack original investigation. Go read it. Check out how perfect the smoking gun paragraphs are…. they are copy-pasted directly from old dissertations:

The guilty party is Kevin Kruse.

Kruse is a tenured history professor at Princeton, a NY Times best-selling author and an MSNBC columnist. He writes for the 1619 Project. He is a bigshot political hack… a good way to describe him to economists is “the historian equivalent of Paul Krugman”.

He is most famous for being a loud liberal on twitter. The very first paragraph of his wikipedia page even says: Outside of academia, Kruse has attracted substantial attention and following for his Twitter threads where he provides historical context and applies historical research to current political events.[3]

I am not going to dig through all his tweets to find the most embarrassing ones… He is a well-known clown/troll. He spends every day, all day, getting into twitter fights. There are too many examples to choose from. Rather, I will end this short article with some of his tweets about plagiarism.

*chefs kiss*

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

@KazeSkyz @RadioFreeTom @Alean4 @KFILE @ErikWemple @DanODonnellShow I don't know, why don't you ask someone at CNN? We're academics talking about someone who plagiarized to get an academic degree.

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

@KFILE @SheriffClarke If he wants someone with more credentials to say it: I'm a professor. This is textbook plagiarism. We'd expel a student who pulled this.

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

If Trump follows the Watergate script any more precisely, the Nixon library will be able to sue him for plagiarism.

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

@charliekirk11 You plagiarized a man who was fired for plagiarism *and* what you plagiarized was fundamentally wrong, as Kanye West grew up in the suburbs with a college professor mom. That’s really quite impressive.

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

If the rest of the convention has reporters focused largely on checking every speech for plagiarism, that's a huge win for the Trump camp.

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

@cjane87 I mean, this isn't as bad as -- oh, hypothetically speaking -- serious offenses like plagiarism or payola, but it's still something that the person who runs the Federalist should be upset about, assuming that person has any kind of ethical standard himself. Hypothetically.

Kevin M. Kruse @KevinMKruse

@jfreewright While you're at it, explain how plagiarism works to him again.

cnn.comSheriff David Clarke plagiarized portions of his master’s thesis on homeland securityIn all instances reviewed by CNN’s KFile, Clarke lifts language from sources and credits them with a footnote, but does not indicate with quotation marks that he is taking the words verbatim.

Will Kruse suffer any consequences for his research misconduct? Nah, doubt it. He has the right politics.