"[T]here is a big difference between being a plagiarist — at bottom, lazy or sloppy — and being a fabulist."

David Carr on Fareed Zakaria and Jonah Lehrer. It's tougher to make things up than to copy, and yet it's Lehrer who's screwed hi...

Fareed Zakaria plagiarism screwup.

How is it possible for someone in his position to make a mistake like this ? The risk far outweighs any convenience in copying material like...

"Well, here we are on top of the world, and we have arrived at this peak to stay there forever."

"There is, of course, a thing called history, but history is something unpleasant that happens to other people. We are comfortably outs...