KURT SCHLICHTER: The Death of Academic Fraud Jason Arday Won’t Shut Us Up.
Regardless, it was entirely predictable that the left would use his unfortunate demise to try to shut us up, to place all criticism of woke charlatans off limits because the subject of the critique might decide to do something desperate. They can’t help themselves but act out irrationally, you see. The fact that this tactic deprives the minority of any agency is no shock; there’s no racist like a leftist, who considers minorities to be nothing more than political marionettes unable to control their own actions. We’re supposed to give them a pass because the targets of our criticism have no agency. It’s like that NSFW scene in Blazing Saddles where the sheriff keeps the townspeople from lynching him by sticking a gun to his head—“He’s just crazy enough to do it!” Except this time the townspeople were not trying to lynch an innocent man and didn’t back off, and he did pull the figurative trigger.
We’re not going to play their game. We’re not going to hold fire for fear of feelz. We’re not going to ignore the truth lest the liar lash out at himself or others. Sometimes the truth hurts, but the only people the truth hurts are people exposed doing something they shouldn’t be doing. The truth is more important than feelings. And the truth is more important than Arday’s life. If the choice we are presented with is that Jason Arday will go on living a lie and degrading our civilization by doing so, or that Jason Arday might hurt himself, it’s Option 2 every day of the week. We’re not going to be held hostage or intimidated or shamed into silence and, therefore, complicity.
Related: Cleverly: Cambridge used Arday for bragging rights.
Jason Arday was used by the University of Cambridge for “bragging rights”, Sir James Cleverly has claimed.
The shadow communities minister said that the late 41-year-old would not have been in such a “terrible” and “personally exposed position” had universities done their due diligence.
Sir James added that higher education establishments presented Mr Arday with “glee” because of his age and ethnicity rather than his talent.
British media rushed to make Arday a superstar with similar “glee” and absolutely no checks into the accuracy of his research or his preposterous claims about his life experiences:
How do BBC journalists do 5 documentaries on this guy, review his claimed back story, and not say “Oh, come on! This is totally BS!”? How do none of those taxpayer paid journalists do basic fact checking of his claims?
In the US, 17% trust the news media. Is it zero in the UK? https://t.co/IQaylijt6b— Daniel Coyne (@DrDanMO) July 30, 2026
Related: The Trouble with Hiding the Faculty.
In a move that I find completely and utterly shocking, but not truly unexpected, the University of Cambridge’s Faculty of Education staff list is now offline.
Try to access it and you get a simple message: “You are not authorized to access this page.”
While this is hugely important to me as a professor, it wouldn’t be odd to ask why should anyone in America care that the faculty directory of an education school at a British university has disappeared? My answer is that what is going on with a former professor at the University of Cambridge represents a much bigger problem that has gone wrong in higher education.
The omertà — it’s not just for the mafia anymore.