After the hosts discuss Katie’s trip to L.A. to go on Real Time with Bill Maher, they talk about the stories of two liberal darlings who face accusations of professional wrongdoing: Kevin Kruse and Rebekah Jones. To discuss this episode with other BARPod premium subscribers go here.
Show notes/Links:
Kevin Kruse, history’s attack dog: https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-kevin-kruse-became-historys-attack-dog/
An example of one of his in-depth threads, on the history of racism in the GOP:
And another, again responding to Dinesh D’Souza:
And here’s a finely aged take on Jussie Smollett:
Is Twitter-Famous Princeton Historian Kevin Kruse a Plagiarist?: https://reason.com/2022/06/14/twitter-famous-princeton-historian-kevin-kruse-plagiarist/
Comparison:
Kevin Kruse, plagiarism disliker:
More plagiarism idsliking:
Chronicle coverage: https://www.chronicle.com/article/this-historian-doesnt-shy-away-from-fights-online-now-hes-on-the-defensive
Plagiarism Today coverage: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/06/27/kevin-kruse-and-the-peak-political-plagiarism-scandal/
Magness’s anti-1619 book: https://www.amazon.com/1619-Project-Critique-Phillip-Magness/dp/1630692018
Magness harshly criticizing Kruse’s scholarship: https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1512
Responses/Responses to the responses/Other background and fighting:
https://loradawnburnett.medium.com/is-it-plagiarism-9daa44a24057
(background on Burnett: https://www.thefire.org/lawsuit-fired-for-criticizing-mike-pence-and-campus-covid-19-response-a-collin-college-history-professor-sues-to-protect-faculty-rights/)
https://philmagness.com/2022/06/when-activist-historians-redefine-plagiarism-to-protect-their-own/
Rebekah Jones:
Jones’ op-ed: https://www.miamiherald.com/article247897180.html
Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/florida-coronavirus-data-rebekah-jones.html
The Covid whistleblower who wasn’t: https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/05/rebekah-jones-the-covid-whistleblower-who-wasnt/
Suspended from Twitter: https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/06/07/the-curious-case-of-rebekah-jones-suspension-from-twitter/
Andy Signore:
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