Ryan Lizza looks at the charges of plagiarism and kleptomania resounding across the Democratic field at the moment, singling out the Dean campaign as the most “protective–some might say paranoid.” It seems to me that, while there’s clearly a lot of protective camouflage going on, one would have to expect some degree of overlap in a field of nine candidates, particularly when the allowable range of leftiness is so frustratingly small.
Tag: Plagiarism
Bellesiles Misfires.
What’s worse than stealing other people’s sources? Making them up in the first place. Historian Michael Bellesiles is forced to resign from Emory after a commission finds he falsified materials in his Bancroft Award-winning Arming America.
Doris Kearns Badwin.
According to the LA Times and Mickey Kaus of Slate, another book of Doris Kearns Goodwin‘s, No Ordinary Time, suffers from Ambrose Syndrome (Ambrosia?). That’s a shame.