This Leftist Historian Doesn’t Shy Away From Fights Online. Now He’s on the Defensive.

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports:

Still, what Kruse did in those instances is, by almost any definition, plagiarism. And it is certainly plagiarism under Princeton’s guidelines, which specifically say that sloppiness is not an acceptable excuse. In an emailed statement, Michael Hotchkiss, a Princeton spokesperson, writes that the university is “committed to the highest ethical and scholarly standards” and that it’s “carefully reviewing the concerns that have been shared with the university, and will handle them in accordance with university policy.”

Professor Kruse is on the defensive...