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AMERICANGREATNESS (Roger Kimball) - The ‘Trouble’ With Theory

My old friend Jeremy Black, the dazzlingly prolific English historian, has an excellent piece in this month’s edition of The Critic on the history profession’s newfound […] Source

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…Open

NYTIMES (Leo Sands) - Academic Who Publicized Plagiarism Allegations Against Jason Arday Is Suspended

Ghent University in Belgium said it suspended the academic, Nathan Cofnas, pending an investigation.

THEFEDERALIST (Eddie Scarry) - Jason Arday Won’t Be The Last Time DEI Gets Someone Killed

It’s not a leap of any kind to say that the left’s DEI devotion is what killed Jason Arday, the Cambridge University professor who was found dead last week after international scrutiny of his professional work (plagiarism) and fantastical personal biography (fraud). But if there was any hope that his apparent suicide would be a […]

NPR (Michel Martin) - Jason Arday's rise and fall tells a larger story about academia, a critic says

What can academia learn from Jason Arday's rise and fall? Atlantic staff writer and former academic Tyler Austin Harper weighs the questions his story left behind.

What can academia learn from Jason Arday's rise and fall? Atlantic staff writer and former academic Tyler Austin Harper weighs the questions his story left behind.Open

NPR (Michel Martin) - Jason Arday's rise and fall tells a larger story about academia, a critic says

What can academia learn from Jason Arday's rise and fall? Atlantic staff writer and former academic Tyler Austin Harper weighs the questions his story left behind.

What can academia learn from Jason Arday's rise and fall? Atlantic staff writer and former academic Tyler Austin Harper weighs the questions his story left behind.Open

AMERICANTHINKER - Jason Arday: You Did It, Liberals

ConiferousForest19 By Christopher Chantrill Our liberal friends are cranking up to blame “critics” for the death of black Cambridge professor Jason Arday.

AMERICANGREATNESS (Stephen Soukup) - Jason Arday, Barack Obama, and the Making of Myths

Yesterday in these pages, the inimitable Roger Kimball recounted the tall tale of Jason Arday, the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge. As […] Source

AMERICANGREATNESS (Roger Kimball) - Great and Unfortunate Fabrications

Jason Arday should ask for a cover charge. His entertainment value is that splendid. For the last couple of weeks, the “youngest ever black professor” […] Source

NYTIMES (Neil Vigdor and Jennifer Schuessler) - Star Scholar Jason Arday Resigns from Cambridge

Jason Arday was hired by the University of Cambridge in 2023 as the youngest Black professor in its history. Doubt has since been cast on his academic qualifications and claims about his life.