A philosopher at my alma mater wrote a controversial paper accusing Kripke of plagiarism. I'm not competent to weigh in on that question, but I thought this article was interesting: http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/Archive/whose.html
The real crime here is Jim Holt’s writing style.
Yeah pretty incomprehensible. Reads like he enjoys the complexity of his sentence without care for the reader