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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: The Plagiarism Ethics Scandal Nobody Is Talking About
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Ben Bayer and Daniel Schwartz discuss the problem of plagiarism in our culture. They argue that although academic institutions assume that cheating is wrong, many academics have no intellectual argument as to why plagiarism is morally wrong or why it is necessary to uphold standards of honesty.
Among the topics covered:
Background on the universities’ sacrifice of academic integrity to DEI;
How plagiarism is a widespread problem in the culture;
How some academics view plagiarism as neither significant nor necessarily wrong;
The intellectuals’ failure to explain why plagiarism is morally wrong;
The fact that...