Is It Plagiarism?

Unpacking the allegations against prominent Princeton historian Kevin Kruse

L.D. Burnett

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The cover of Kevin Kruse’s 2015 monograph. Photo © L.D. Burnett, 2022.

Many things can be true at once.

In this essay, I hope to distinguish what is arguably true — what can be reasonably asserted using the evidence at hand — from what is either insufficiently-supported speculation, flawed interpretation, or intentional misrepresentation.

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L.D. Burnett

Writer and historian from / in California’s Great Central Valley. Book, “Western Civilization: The History of an American Idea,” under contract w/ UNC Press.