From The UNZ Review: …. Mr. Arday made sweeping boasts about his athletic ability. “[Professor Arday] says he once ran 600 miles in six days for charity, 300 miles in three days, and 30 marathons in 35 days, partly with a broken leg,” according to The Telegraph. While not strictly impossible (though perhaps not possible with an injury), this would make him one of the greatest athletes in the world in the relatively small community of ultra-distance runners. Instead, he is unknown and there is no proof of his claims. The world record is 650 miles in 6 days, and this was on a flat circuit with a whole team of medical support. Southampton Soylent University, which gave Mr. Arday an honorary degree, quietly removed its mention of his athletic feats from its website.
Mr. Arday tells elite liberals fairy tales they want to hear. Isn’t that why he was hired? The worst of it is not plagiarism or his claims of athletic prowess. It is that his work is mostly anecdotes (which may or may not be fantasies) and quotes from interviews (that may or may not have even occurred). There is little data or research; just accusations of racism and demands that non-whites get more of everything. His career is proof of how the system works.
Jason Arday is not a disgrace to modern academia. You could call him its crowning achievement. He publishes unfalsifiable jargon vaguely linked to complaints about white racism and demands respect and status based on phony credentials. His fantasies are what most professors tell us about race anyway. Jason Arday is not an exception to the honorable profession of higher education. He is increasingly the rule, and the scandal tells us more about academia than about him.
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