Yes, but. The “but” is that plagiarism allegations are easy to verify independently, mooting whatever malign motive lies behind them. The December 11 complaint was troubling, but it concerned Gay’s ...

Claudine Gay is the president of Harvard University. In recent weeks, she has come under fire for plagiarizing portions of her 1997 doctoral dissertation, as well as published articles she had ...

On Wednesday, I reported on the serial plagiarism of Times of London tennis correspondent Neil Harman and on how Wimbledon continued to sell its annual yearbook even after discovering Harman’s ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. One reason we need a new way of thinking is that the politicization of plagiarism is bad for all ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been accused of plagiarism by the student paper at Princeton University — his alma mater. The Daily Princetonian alleges that Hegseth's 2003 senior thesis ...

Recently two popular historians were discovered to have lifted passages from other historians' books. They identified the sources in footnotes, but they failed to place quotation marks around the ...

Could student plagiarism actually be reduced? And could it be reduced not through fear of being caught, but through ... education? The evidence in a study released Monday suggests that the answer to ...

Last week, a reader tipped me to an instance of potential plagiarism by Gerald Posner in the Daily Beast, for which Posner is chief investigative reporter. After I called the plagiarism to the ...

It became glaringly apparent yesterday that The New Yorker’s big-name new hire Jonah Lehrer has often reused his own work, word-for-word, for publications including Wired, The Wall Street Journal, and ...