A review of the senior thesis of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ’03 by The Daily Princetonian, in consultation with three plagiarism experts, found eight instances of uncredited material, sham paraphrasing, and verbatim copying. According to the experts, each passage violated Princeton’s academic integrity policies but varied in severity.
Light plagiarism was serious enough that The NY Times ran like 700 stories to get the president of Harvard to resign. But that scandal was like 15 months ago and times have changed. The NY Times now has to cover the Met Gala like it’s a global summit creating a new world order from the ashes of a ruined civilization. Plus, Maggie Haberman needs access so she can save the most newsworthy bits for a book to be released in 2029.