Nature extols Jason Arday

Berlin Dispatches: Arriving at Cambridge in the shadow of Jason Arday

A week of wandering through emptied colleges and murmured conversations reveals how a single life — and its collapse — unsettled one of the world’s oldest universities.

How the Media Turned Jason Arday Into a Racialized Spectacle

Hundreds of stories about one Black Cambridge professor expose the racial double standards, concentrated power and mythology of objectivity embedded in modern journalism. The controversy surrounding the death of Jason Arday has produced a revealing moment of institutional self-defense, if not abject moral cowardice, within the liberal press. Three recent interventions are especially instructive. The [...]

Nature Misdirects Blame for the Jason Arday Tragedy

Rather than recognizing the dire consequences that can result from elevating people beyond their actual capabilities, the editors of Nature instead castigated Cambridge for turning on Arday.

Nature extols Jason Arday

I thought I was through writing about Jason Arday, but I didn’t anticipate that he would become some kind of hero, or at least that many people would emphasize how he was hounded to death—always pushing the “racism” angle and blaming Cambridge and the press but neglecting the fabulism and preferential hiring that got Arday … Continue reading Nature extols Jason Arday