Pete Hegseth, the current U.S. Secretary of Defense and a 2003 Princeton graduate, is facing allegations of plagiarism after his alma mater's student newspaper uncovered multiple uncited or improperly cited passages in his senior thesis—including text nearly identical to a 2001 Washington Post article.
The Daily Princetonian reviewed Hegseth's 90-page senior thesis, "Modern Presidential Rhetoric and the Cold War Context," and found eight examples of plagiarism ranging from sham paraphrasing to verbatim copying without quotation marks.
