Phillip W. Magness

I have to admit that I expected some pushback against the thesis of my paper (co-authored with Michael Makovi) “The Mainstreaming of Marx: Measuring the Effect of the Russian Revolution on Karl...

https://philmagness.com/2022/11/how-eric-hobsbawm-anticipated-synthetic-marx/

Last week, a preprint of my new article on Karl Marx’s citation patterns (coauthored with Michael Makovi) was posted on the Journal of Political Economy website. Our article investigates histor...

https://philmagness.com/2022/11/john-ganzs-weberian-sleight-of-hand/

According to recent reports, both Princeton and Cornell Universities have opted not to take any action over multiple instances of plagiarism by historian Kevin M. Kruse. Notably, neither universi...

https://philmagness.com/2022/10/kevin-kruses-plagiarism-scandal-evaluating-the-evidence/

It’s been just over two weeks since I first called attention to signs of possible plagiarism in the works Kevin M. Kruse, a history professor and left-wing political commentator for MSNBC. Prin...

https://philmagness.com/2022/07/the-bad-faith-defenders-of-progressive-plagiarism/

So it turns out that my earlier suspicions about possible academic integrity issues in Kevin M. Kruse’s scholarship were warranted. After finding hints of borrowed textual structures and word p...

https://philmagness.com/2022/06/when-activist-historians-redefine-plagiarism-to-protect-their-own/

Historian Kevin M. Kruse is perhaps best known as a contributor to the New York Times’s controversial 1619 Project, where he wrote an essay linking traffic congestion to the history of segregat...

https://philmagness.com/2021/11/did-kevin-kruse-plagiarize-an-article-from-the-new-york-times/

In their recent essay for the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Reactionary Propaganda Rides Again,” scholars Naomi Oreskes and Charlie Tyson take issue with my own analysis of faculty politica...

https://philmagness.com/2021/06/how-naomi-oreskes-lies-about-university-faculty-bias/

The Economic Historian blog has a fascinating discussion at the moment on the “New History of Capitalism” (NHC) school of historiography, and its attempts to grapple with the economic dimensi...

https://philmagness.com/2020/08/was-abolitionism-a-free-market-triumph/

Just over two weeks ago, Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman approached the New York Times and Washington Post with an astonishing claim. According to new calculations performed ...

https://philmagness.com/2019/10/somethings-fishy-with-the-saez-zucman-tax-stats/

A few days ago I received a strange and unexpected notification in the form of a tweet. Calvin TerBeek, a political science PhD student at the University of Chicago, claimed that he had evidence ...

https://philmagness.com/2019/05/the-attempted-sliming-of-gordon-tullock/