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…Open
The public exposure, resignation, and subsequent death of the British fabulist Jason Arday have reignited the longstanding (if not eternal) debate about the purpose of […] Source
A teacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we emerged able to discriminate, as discriminating persons, he would […] The post Cofnas, Arday, and the Ever-Expanding ‘Discrimination’ Definition appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Cofnas, Arday, and the Ever-Expanding ‘Discrimination’ Definition The terms of bureaucratic discipline drift ever further from the actual usages of the English language. A teacher of English told me in his class more than sixty years ago that his job was to teach discrimination: between the meritorious and the meretricious, the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. If the result of his teaching was that we emerged able to discriminate, as discriminating persons, he would have succeeded. I suppose that it would now be as impossible to return the word discrimination to the sense in which my teacher (now long dead)…Open
Nathan Cofnas, the American academic who broke the Jason Arday scandal, has been permitted to resume remote academic work at Ghent University in Belgium.
Nathan Cofnas, the academic who exposed the Jason Arday scandal, has been allowed to resume academic work following an intervention by the U.S. Mission to Belgium after he was suspended by Ghent University. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: - DETAIL: Cofnas has been allowed to resume some of his work while he faces a disciplinary investigation. The announcement was made on Friday by Ghent University. “I am grateful to Rector Petra De Sutter for allowing me to stay at Ghent University… I wish to personally thank Ambassador [Bill White]. It was beyond my imagination that such a person would take an interest in the fate of a postdoc. The Ambassador responded with great support which helped to bring about a just outcome. Thank you,…Open
Jason Arday was found dead on August 14 at his home in south London, one week after resigning his professorship in the sociology of education […] Source
Why do the Brits imitate the worst in American culture? The post We Happy Few, We Band Of Wokesters appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Culture We Happy Few, We Band Of Wokesters Why do the Brits imitate the worst in American culture? Assuming the ridiculous gushing over a Cambridge conman was not a national Monty Python sketch arranged for tourists, the Jason Arday affair reminded me of one of the most peculiar things about Britain: It’s more woke than the U.S. Which is weird, because the Mother Country still has a monarchy that rules over tens of millions of white subjects. The closest we have to that in America is the NAACP. According to the 2021 census , the UK is 2.5 percent black, but around half of all…Open
Arday, who was 41-years-old when he died, faced considerable allegations of plagiarism while teaching at Cambridge and the university ultimately announced an investigation into his work, which prompted his resignation.
By Bill Ponton Knowledge of Jason Arday’s race alone provides little insight into his lifetime pattern of deception and ultimate suicide, but if you consider his gay qualities, it all comes into sharp focus.
The United States Mission to Belgium has condemned Ghent University for suspending the academic who broke the Jason Arday scandal.
The U.S. Mission to Belgium has criticized Ghent University for suspending Nathan Cofnas, the academic who exposed the plagiarism and fraudulent claims of the late Jason Arday, a former professor at the University of Cambridge. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The U.S. Mission to Belgium has condemned Ghent University for suspending the academic who broke the Jason Arday scandal. DETAIL: The condemnation came on Friday after it was reported that academic Nathan Cofnas had been suspended from Ghent University, the second-largest university in Belgium. Cofnas gained attention after uncovering plagiarism and fabrications in the work and personal biography of Jason Arday, a former professor at the University of Cambridge. Arday was the youngest…Open