{"id":14370,"date":"2026-08-18T04:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/?p=14370"},"modified":"2026-08-18T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T17:42:50","slug":"academentia-at-the-university-of-cambridge-the-case-of-jason-arday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/academentia-at-the-university-of-cambridge-the-case-of-jason-arday\/","title":{"rendered":"Academentia at the University of Cambridge: The Case of Jason Arday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is sad to see the mother country, to which we owe so much, collapse under the weight of its own inanition, toxic tolerance, suicidal empathy, and overall decadence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/douglas-murray-tragedy-jason-arday?utm_campaign=realclearpolitics\">Douglas Murray<\/a> on Jason Arday.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">When news broke on Friday that the disgraced academic Jason Arday had been found dead at home in London, after being accused of plagiarizing much of his work and lying about all manner of biographical details in his recent memoir, there were those on the left who leapt to blame racism.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">London Mayor Sadiq Khan immediately posted on X that \u201cJason Arday was the victim of a pernicious public shaming that other people in his position simply wouldn\u2019t have faced.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some years back I asked an Englishman, a Londoner, how a Muslim could become mayor of his great city. &#8220;He was elected.&#8221; No doubt. But how could that happen?\u00a0 How many Christians have high government positions in Muslim countries?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is sad to see the mother country, to which we owe so much, collapse under the weight of its own inanition, toxic tolerance, suicidal empathy, and overall decadence. Douglas Murray on Jason Arday. When news broke on Friday that the disgraced academic Jason Arday had been found dead at home in London, after being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/academentia-at-the-university-of-cambridge-the-case-of-jason-arday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Academentia at the University of Cambridge: The Case of Jason Arday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,180,26,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-decline-of-the-west","category-immigration","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14371,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions\/14371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}