Last week in these pages, Philip Terzian summarized the plagiaristic career of Salon magazine's Jonathan Broder, an ardent exponent of the view that Bill and Hillary Clinton's problems are the work of a vast right-wing conspiracy. Terzian pointed out that Broder, a serial plagiarist, really shouldn't be calling other journalists dishonest, and shouldn't be getting such an easy ride in the mainstream media.
Now Daniel Pipes, editor of the Middle East Quarterly and an occasional contributor to THE WEEKLY STANDARD, offers further documentation of Broder's own dishonesty. Writes Pipes: "While reading an article on Syria by a reporter named Nolan Strong in the Dec. 12, 1991, issue of the Jerusalem Report, I found many pieces of information lifted from my recently published book, Damascus Courts the West: Syrian Politics, 1989-91 (Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 1991), but no mention of my book. I wrote the Jerusalem Report to complain and shortly after got a call from none other than Mr. Jonathan Broder, during the course of which he explained that he was 'Nolan Strong' and then offered an excuse about being rushed by a deadline and somehow omitting to credit my study. Mr. Broder, in other words, doesn't just plagiarize in his own name but does so pseudonymously as well."
Pretty impressive. We sense a potential new feature here. If you have been a victim of Jonathan Broder, either eponymously or pseudonymously, please send details to I Was Plagiarized by Jonathan Broder, c/o THE SCRAPBOOK, 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505, Washington, DC 20036. For new examples of Broder's industriousness, THE SCRAPBOOK promises to come up with a suitable prize -- probably something stolen from Salon.