I don't mean to beat the Jason Arday story to death. When people started to question all this, the defenses were robust, with a group of famous professors, politicians, and other luminaries writing indignantly: “We stand in unwavering solidarity with Professor Arday. I’m not sure you want to stake all of black academics on Jason Arday and these broken-leg marathons. If you look at the graduate student theses from the gender studies department at Cambridge University, you can see why Arday fit right in. A Cambridge prof is worried about the Jason Arday scandal's potential harm to "the broader field of critical race studies."