THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Theodore Dalrymple) - Simon and Schuster Is Right to Publish Arday’s Memoir
The public has an interest in the late professor’s confabulations. The post Simon and Schuster Is Right to Publish Arday’s Memoir appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Simon and Schuster Is Right to Publish Arday’s Memoir The public has an interest in the late professor’s confabulations. TakiMag Carl Court/Getty Images There are individual cases that reveal the state of, and fissures in, a society, and perhaps even of an entire civilization. Such a case is that of Jason Arday, the young black man who was chosen by Cambridge University on almost purely demographic grounds as a professor of the sociology of education, and who died shortly after his resignation from the post once the university announced an official enquiry into his appointment. His is a kind of Dreyfus case in reverse, a mirror image of the affair that convulsed French society for more than a decade; no doubt it will spawn a…Open