New York Post
@nypost·2.4M subscribers·43.2K videos
Plagiarist prof Jason Arday’s life story has published, and it gets more unbelievable #shorts
Posted
August 12, 2026
Views
3,761
Likes
71
Comments
14
Engagement
August 12, 2026
3,761
71
14
2.26%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
1:18Now PlayingA Cambridge University professor with an unbelievable story of overcoming systemic oppression skyrocketed to stardom.
Then, people started to realize his story actually was unbelievable — in the true sense of the word — and his fabulist tales and academic record fell apart days before his memoir’s publication.
“Great and Unfortunate Things” has hit shelves in the US, published by Simon & Schuster — a deal that, at least according to Arday, was valued at $1.4 million.
Read more at
#greatandunfortunatethings #cambridge #professor #systemicopression
The New York Post is your source for breaking news, news about New York, sports, business, entertainment, opinion, real estate, culture, fashion, and more.
Check out our three new podcasts:
NYNext (week)
Pod Force One with MIranda Devine (weekly)
NY POSTcast (daily)
Get The Post’s latest headlines everyday with our Morning Report newsletter:
Catch the latest news at
Follow The New York Post on:
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
