Jason Arday’s Cambridge Grift Ends — But the Post-BLM Reckoning Has Just Begun

So he’s gone: Jason Arday, Cambridge University’s scandal-ridden professor, has resigned.

The “rock-star academic” famous for his long hair and tall tales has fallen on his sword following media exposés of his plagiarized Ph.D. dissertation and his fabulist claims of racial oppression.

Yet while the disgraced dreadlocked prof might be shuffling off into ignominy, this disaster is far from over.

We need to ask why so many prestigious institutions — not only Cambridge but the entirety of English academia — fell for this man’s grift.

The real story here is less Arday’s BS than the fact that so many ostensibly clever people were sucked in by it — the inevitable consequence of the intellectual class’ craven cave to the cult of BLM.