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Culture

Hungarian President Resigns Over…Plagiarism?

Matt Welch | 4.2.2012 12:16 PM

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Yes, plagiarism.

Lord knows, Hungary has bigger political problems than thesis-copying (about the Olympic Games, no less!), but I'm always in favor of expanding the categories under which heads of state can resign in disgrace.

Reason on plagiarism here. Link via the Twitter feed of Budapest-based journalist Adam LeBor.

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Matt Welch is an editor at large at Reason.

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