What is plagiarism?

Harvard, America’s oldest university, has sacrificed its cherished reputation as an elite institution of higher education by defending serial plagiarism at the alter of intersectional politics and DEI. Thanks to the career-spanning (but not career-ending) dishonesty of Harvard president Claudine Gay, the relevance of plagiarism to valid scholarship is a topic of wide discussion and debate. Is plagiarism really that bad, or is it merely imitation - ‘the sincerest form of flattery’, a victimless crime? The National Association of Scholars provides helpful guidance in a recent statement on plagiarism and academic dishonesty.