Princeton Plagiarism

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

Jun 14, 2022

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:

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

reason.com

Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?

7:17 PM · Jun 14, 2022

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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.com

Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?

8:56 PM · Jun 14, 2022

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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:

comparison of Kruse and congressional texts

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.

3:25 AM · May 21, 2017

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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.

4:32 PM · May 24, 2017

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Kevin M. Kruse@KevinMKruse

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

9:51 PM · May 16, 2017