Left-Wing Activists Threaten Oxford Students over Speaker Who Helped Expose Jason Arday

The Reform Society student group at recently announced that it would host an event at Oriel College in November titled “” featuring Nathan Cofnas. Cofnas is the academic who exposed plagiarism committed by , who had been the University of Cambridge’s youngest-ever black professor.

Last summer, following Cofnas’s explosive article, media outlets began examining Arday’s life story and disproved many of the grandiose claims that he had made about his personal achievements. (For a lengthier summary of Arday’s academic misconduct and fictitious biography, see National Review’s reporting, which uncovered that Arday had falsely claimed to be a visiting professor at Ohio State University.)

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The Reform Society student group at recently announced that it would host an event at Oriel College in November titled “” featuring Nathan Cofnas. Cofnas is the academic who exposed plagiarism committed by , who had been the University of Cambridge’s youngest-ever black professor.

Last summer, following Cofnas’s explosive article, media outlets began examining Arday’s life story and disproved many of the grandiose claims that he had made about his personal achievements. (For a lengthier summary of Arday’s academic misconduct and fictitious biography, see National Review’s reporting, which uncovered that Arday had falsely claimed to be a visiting professor at Ohio State University.)