Friday, August 7, 2026

The book that cannot be published

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You may have thought things couldn't get worse for Jason Arday, the black University of Cambridge professor who writes about "racism."

He's been caught in a massive plagiarism scandal and in fabricating stories about himself (and even possibly his research results, even though his "research" isn't particularly rigorous to start with), and calling the police on people who question his work.

Well, they can get worse.

It turns out he's supposed to have a book about his life coming out next week from Simon & Schuster, called Great and Unfortunate Things. It's filled with the same kind of whoppers the academic left so desperately wanted to believe about him. Surely the publisher will now have to pull it.

The Atlantic obtained a copy of the book proposal as well as a copy of the book itself.

If by some miracle the book is still published, you'll get to read the story of the four boys who mugged Arday as a teenager, thereby giving him epilepsy. Arday, the magnanimous hero, pleaded for clemency for the boys, two of whom ended up being his students later in life, and he became godfather to one of their children.

If that story is true (and I leave it to the reader to decide on how plausible it is), Arday will evidently call the police on a peaceful reporter, but not on people who mugged him.

My old friend Gerard Casey responded with, "
What’s a mere knife wound compared to being asked a bunch of questions!"

The book proposal says Arday was in a car crash as a young man that put him in a coma, and that doctors advised his parents to take him off life support -- but he awakened "miraculously."

No mention of the crash or the coma even made it into the book. Strange -- doesn't that seem like rather a noteworthy episode?

But the proposal is filled with stories like the one about the Brazilian "shaman woman" (in the book she's been downgraded to "a local aid worker who spoke some English"), who told him he would suffer greatly but accomplish great things. "Ev
ery event she described has since come to pass," he wrote.

The list of things that are alleged to have happened in his life is so absurd that nobody who wasn't ideologically blinkered would have believed them -- or believed that anyone else would have believed them. (Did I mention he overcame two brain tumors and testicular cancer?)

As The Atlantic notes, "
By his own account, Arday rose to fame as a scholar and a writer despite staggering limitations; he became an academic who can read only a single page of academic text an hour and cannot comprehend what is happening at work 90 percent of the time."

What are we even doing here?

Jacqueline Mckenzie, a signatory of the letter in support of Jason Arday by left-wing academics, and who has served as a "
race equality officer," insists that "Jason was clearly hounded by people with an agenda, particularly ones with distasteful and discredited views on race." Well, that sure sounds like the kind of argument someone might make in behalf of an innocent person.

It gets better. Writes Mckenzie: "Whatever the facts are on his extra curricular activities and on the plagiarism when things are examined, Jason has, seemingly, more talent than most of the people celebrating his downfall. Not sure many of us can write a PhD even with copied paragraphs."

I don't think I even need to comment on that.

Then she claims, "African and Asian heritage professionals are over surveilled, micro managed and investigated."

I would be extremely surprised if nonwhites were targeted for plagiarism investigations more than whites; if anything, there appears to be a pattern of trying to shut people up who ask questions like these about nonwhites. Not to mention, if the universities had enough integrity to pursue cases like this, they wouldn't have hired faculty like these in the first place.

But supposing nonwhites are indeed targeted for investigation more frequently, the real question is, on a percentage basis are they more likely to be found guilty? In other words, maybe there's good reason for these investigations.

The guy had been appointed as a full professor at age 37, which is almost unheard of. To say he was in over his head would be an understatement. No doubt in order to satisfy quotas many other such professors have been put in the same situation.


When the plagiarism charges emerged, his department chair at Cambridge, Hilary Cremin (see photo at right), told him: "You are the best in the world in terms of the research that you do."

The research he does is of no value. Everyone can see that. But he's been surrounded for years by people who look like Hilary Cremin, telling him: "You are the best!" "Let's make you a full professor!"

This is the result.


Eve Claxton (pictured at right) is a professional ghostwriter and co-author, who wrote the book with Arday. Not one aspect of the story seemed implausible to her, and she decided it would be worth staking her reputation on it.

Now, agorists like to make a distinction between the market and the state that is useful here. The marketplace is where we interact with each other voluntarily and satisfy each other's needs on the basis of our freely expressed preferences, while the state is a coercive institution in which interactions take place coercively and without regard for one party's needs and wishes.

Academia is a classic case of the latter: so much of it produces a product nobody in his right mind would pay for (just try reading an article in a "professional journal" without gouging your eyes out), and at your expense. Entire departments generate nothing of value. The whole racket would be entirely hollowed out if its endless, coercively acquired subsidies were taken away.

My step-by-step presentation in the coming days on how to start and operate a solopreneur, laptop-based business is the opposite of that world, because it involves actually producing something valuable for the world.

It's 2026, and we have technology that would have stunned everyone who ever lived, so if we can't figure out how to monetize it, something is wrong.

No plagiarism or phony stories here: I wrote the whole presentation myself, and you'll learn everything you need to know. There's no "buy my $5000 course if you want to know the last few steps" at the end. At the end you will have all the information.

The whole presentation costs you nothing, and I'll tell you right now: it is darn good. You will be the exact opposite of the people we've been talking about, who are a net minus on society.

So what's the catch? You have to be there live. No replay. Reserve your spot here:

https://www.tomwoods.com/project2026


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