Looks like smug liberal Princeton Prof. Kevin Kruse took quite a few highly problematic scholarly liberties to get to where he is

Sarah D | 11:22 AM on June 15, 2022

Outspoken liberal Princeton history Prof. Kevin Kruse has been making a huge ass of himself on Twitter for years now. Here are just a few relatively recent moments, in case you’re interested in revisiting some of his finest work:

Proud lefty historian is outraged at Trump for comparing impeachment to ‘lynching,’ but likening ICE facilities to Nazi death camps is totally fine
Jay Caruso takes blue-checked ‘historian’ back to school over the latter’s ‘revisionist history about the Senate’ and Mitch McConnell
Stephen L. Miller hopes Dems will take lib ‘historian’ Kevin Kruse’s hot Clarence Thomas take and run like hell with it into the midterms
Princeton history Prof. Kevin Kruse winds up with a big black eye after taking ignorant swing at J.D. Vance

But, as it turns out, his making an ass of himself actually dates back several decades:

Princeton historian @KevinMKruse's PhD thesis on civil-rights-era Atlanta lifts passages from other people's work https://t.co/6l7WFQYHHy

— reason (@reason) June 14, 2022

We’d post an excerpt of economic and political historian Phil Magness’ piece here, but frankly, Kruse has evidently been up to so much plagiarism, we couldn’t possibly decide on which passages to pull. We will post this paragraph featuring Kruse’s emailed response to Magness’ request for an explanation of the troubling pattern in Kruse’s work:

I asked Kruse for an explanation of the aforementioned examples from his dissertation. Responding by email, he indicated his “intellectual debts to Prof. Bayor and Prof. Sugrue in the text, endnotes and bibliography” but acknowledged that I had “found instances here in which I inartfully or incompletely paraphrased them. Again, thank you for bringing this to my attention and for giving me the opportunity to respond.”