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Nathan Cofnas
Personal blog · ncofnas.compoliticsphilosophy
Nathan Cofnas's personal blog at ncofnas.com covers politics and philosophy. Since 2024, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-16, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Nathan Cofnas's posts as evidence in threads on the Jason Arday plagiarism case and on race and DEI topics, and one calls a post a rebuttal on wokism.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Philosophy, politics, and culture.
Most-linked posts?
- DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-07-24
- A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-08-16
What Hacker News says?
I think this is a good rebuttal which discusses the above: https://ncofnas.com/p/wokism-is-just-beginning
Comment linking /p/wokism-is-just-beginning
on “New York Times Word Usage Frequency Chart”Submitted A Guide for the Hereditarian Revolution as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, the plagiarism has been amply demonstrated. https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge
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on “Jason Arday Found Dead”Submitted DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNathan Cofnas, the whistleblower, is a “race realist”: > Under a colorblind system that judged applicants only by academic qualifications, blacks would make up 0.7% of Harvard students. (Even that might be an overestimate, since high-school credentials are sometimes given a boost by affirmative action.) In a meritocracy, Harvard faculty would be recruited from the best of the best students, which means the number of…
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on “Youngest Black professor at Cambridge who faced plagiarism claims is found dead”Submitted DEI Fraud and Cover-Up at Cambridge as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've long said the problem with the term racism is that real, proper, professional racists like this guy don't think they're treating other races (or women) differently based purely on race (or gender). They fundamentally believe those people are inferior and so it's totally logical to treat them as inferior. To them it would only be racist if a black or female academic was capable of being as good as a white man. S…
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on “I Became the Scapegoat in the Jason Arday Affair”https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge Teams of lifted passages look quite obvious.
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on “Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead”You can check with your own eyes that entire paragraphs of his work were copied verbatim: https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cambridge-jason-arday... https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge
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on “Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead”We know for a fact that he plagiarised at least some of his work, yes. You can find examples here, scroll to the tables with highlights. https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge
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on “Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead”Entire paragraphs were duplicated verbatim: https://retractionwatch.com/2026/07/27/cambridge-jason-arday... https://ncofnas.com/p/dei-fraud-and-cover-up-at-cambridge
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on “Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead”
