Harvard, America’s oldest university, has sacrificed its cherished reputation as an elite institution of higher education by defending serial plagiarism at the alter of intersectional politics and DEI. Thanks to the career-spanning (but not career-ending) dishonesty of Harvard president Claudine Gay, the relevance of plagiarism to valid scholarship is a topic of wide discussion and debate. Is plagiarism really that bad, or is it merely imitation - ‘the sincerest form of flattery’, a victimless crime? The National Association of Scholars provides helpful guidance in a recent statement on plagiarism and academic dishonesty.
