Allow me to clear my throat and modestly nod at the Omnibus curriculum, which takes students through six massive volumes of hundreds of ancient, medieval and modern books and plays — Scripture, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Homer, Herodotus, Plutarch, Euclid, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Thucy . . . oh, never mind. . . . In short, for anyone familiar with the topics at ACCS conferences, the footnotes in our books, and the curricula in our schools, Michael appears to be a perpilocutionist.
Douglas Wilson
Tagged “plagiary”
Stuart P. Green: “The Psychology of Plagiarism”
“Finally, there is undoubtedly a significant amount of plagiarism that is conscious and deliberate, the result of rational, if perverse, cost-benefit calculation.” — Stuart P. Green Continue reading
“for anyone familiar with . . . the footnotes in our books”
Wrestling With Wilson
“cowardice”
“In Titus 1, and 1 Timothy 3, God’s requirements for leadership are strict — and clear. According to those requirements, John Wesley was not qualified to be a leader of God’s people; he was not ‘blameless’ in the text’s sense. He stole the words of another and did not acknowledge that he had done so.” — Douglas Wilson Continue reading
Plagiario: “slave stealer”
Filed under “Irony”
“The first person to use the term ‘plagiarism’ in connection with literary works was the Roman poet Martial, who lived in the first century C.E.” — Stuart P. Green Continue reading
“two ways to measure a man”
There are two ways to measure a man by his footnotes and bibliography. One is to measure his footnotes and bibliography. The other is to measure how many footnotes and bibliographies he is likely to wind up in.
Douglas Wilson
@KirkCEO with a reminder to @rachelheldevans
Don’t worry, @rachelheldevans. The snotty stuff I’ve said about you wasn’t plagiarized.
— Not Doug Wilson (@KirkCEO) May 5, 2016
Memorial Day and the Lost Cause
No Lost Cause, no Southern Slavery As It Was or any of its disgrace. Continue reading
“George Orwell, call your office.”
If you want to read an indictment of American academia, as if you needed one, then I recommend Plagiarism and the Culture War. In it, Theodore Pappas documents the wholesale plagiarism committed by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his doctoral work, not to mention the varied and wondrous contortions of the academic establishment as they sought to studiously ignore this indisputable fact. Of course, this particular instance is not the sum and substance of modern academic corruption, but it does provide a wonderful example of how it all works. If you are in any doubt about how advanced our public corruption is, just write a letter to your local paper on how MLK was a plagiarist, and see what happens. Suddenly, mirabile dictu, people like you who believe that a man should be judged by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin will be branded . . . racists. George Orwell, call your office.
Douglas Wilson
“Theft and fraud are driven by zero-sum thinking”
But sin is like that. Sin is blinkered and it naturally and easily assumes, in the grip of envy and covetousness, that more for him is less for me, and since I am in this for me, we have to work on more for me and less for him, and devil take the hindmost. Theft and fraud are driven by zero-sum thinking, which is one of the underlying theological reasons for opposing and rejecting them.
Douglas Wilson
Omnibus, “alleged plagiarism,” and the first American Egyptologist
“His grave site is marked with a large Aswan granite cube, marked simply with his name and ‘historian and archaeologist.’” Continue reading
Veritas Press on the Horns of a Dilemma
They must choose their poison: Admit guilt or plead some form of colossal editorial incompetence. Continue reading
“see you later, alligator”
You don’t have to cite anyone when you write ‘on the one hand’ or ‘on the other.’ And as my son once observed (please note the citation), no one knows who was the first person to say ‘see you later, alligator.’ But perhaps I should take that back. Maybe somebody does know. Maybe I am just the one who does not know. It sounds like it might have come from one of those Tin Pan Alley songs in the twenties.
Douglas Wilson