Fareed Zakaria Might Have Definitely Plagiarized The New Yorker [Update]

Fareed Zakaria is in trouble for an article on gun control he penned for Time. Well, maybe we should say “he penned/ripped from a New Yorker article in April.” Newsbusters reports that Zakaria’s essay, “The Case for Gun Control,” lifts whole sections from an article in the New Yorker by Jill Lepore.

Have a look for yourself.

Zakaria’s piece:

Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, documents the actual history in Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America.

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