Jason Arday and Our Embarrassing Academic Elite | Tom Woods Show #2786
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The Jason Arday plagiarism and all-around weirdo and liar scandal told us something not only about the University of Cambridge but also about the whole higher-education racket: a great many left-liberal academics defended an obvious charlatan down to the very last moment even though his plagiarism and other problems were obvious to everyone.
In this episode, Tom breaks down:
How Arday went from a PhD at Liverpool John Moores to a full professorship at Cambridge by age 37 — and why his dissertation prose alone should have disqualified him
The extensive, side-by-side plagiarism in his published articles, and the "corrections" journals quietly issued rather than retracting his work
The fabricated claims: a fictitious visiting scholar post at Ohio State, a phantom book deal with Palgrave Macmillan, inflated marathon and fundraising claims, and the wilder personal mythology (a mugging that "gave him epilepsy," a coma, a Brazilian shaman's prophecy) that a major publisher was reportedly still planning to print
How Arday responded to scrutiny — including contacting the Metropolitan Police over a professor's simple request for clarification
Why Cambridge only moved once the scandal threatened to embarrass the broader progressive project, not because the scholarship itself was fraudulent
The hard numbers from the Compact article "The Statistics Behind the Jason Arday Scandal" comparing publication records by race and rank across top sociology departments — and what they reveal about hiring standards
Two more cases in the same pattern: University of Maryland Eastern Shore president Heidi Anderson's plagiarized 1986 dissertation, and historian Kerry Greenidge's award-winning (and now unraveling) book "The Grimkes"
Why Tom's own Columbia dissertation — "Ever Ancient, Ever New: Catholic Intellectuals and the Progressive Era" — has nothing to fear from this kind of scrutiny, and what that says about what a dissertation is actually supposed to be
(Ep. 2786 of the Tom Woods Show)
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Articles Mentioned:
"Another College President Plagiarized Her Dissertation. That's Just the Tip of the Iceberg," by Luke Rosiak - https://www.dailywire.com/news/maryland-college-president-heidi-anderson-plagiarized-dissertation
"The Statistics Behind the Jason Arday Scandal," by Jukka Savolainen and Kevin McCaffree - https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-statistics-behind-the-jason-arday-scandal/
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Chapters:
00:00 Cambridge Plagiarism Scandal
00:55 Sowell Book Plagiarism Tale
04:11 Arday Dissertation Word Salad
05:46 Plagiarism And Fake Credentials
08:39 Police And Legal Threats
10:23 Sponsor Plan B Residency
12:00 Fabricated Research And Resignation
16:01 Book Proposal Tall Tales
19:04 Defenders And Hiring Process
23:20 Sociology Hiring Statistics
27:07 Sponsor Tax Planning Pitch
29:13 Heidi Anderson Dissertation Case
31:49 Kerry Greenidge History Scandal
34:25 Woods Dissertation And Academia
39:18 Alternative Education Preparation
41:47 Unapproved Library Classics
44:25 Wrap Up And Links
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