Eric Rasmusen’s Weblog

David Frum writes of how young Harvard Law professor Noah Feldman is following the shameful style of so many of the older professors in that school. In Feldman’s case, he is not plagiarizing, though. Rather, he is making up stories about his personal life to make his high school and Orthodox Judaism generally look bad. He claimed in a New York Times story that he and his Korean-American girlfriend were deliberately cropped out of a reunion photo. When the Times got the photo to use with the story, it was obvious to them and Feldman that he was wrong– the number of people was simply too big to include them all (so 18 were left out). Since the photo contradicted Feldman’s story, they decided not to run the photo!

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