About this episode

The episode discusses the rise of fanaticism through the lens of Jason Arday's controversial life and death.

On this, our 339th Evolutionary Lens livestream, we discuss the rise of fanaticism in the context of Jason Arday—the former Cambridge professor who was under fire for plagiarism and fabulism, and was recently found dead. Arday benefitted from the progressive stack, and played up both his blackness and autism; he was also an actual marathoner and a human being. There can be no nuance on either side—either he is beloved and his name is chanted at a gathering at Trafalgar Square, or he is denoun...

People in this episode

Hosts: Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying

Topics covered

• fanaticism
• plagiarism
• progressive stack
• identity
• autism
• society

Keywords

• fanaticism
• Jason Arday
• plagiarism
• autism
• progressive stack
• society
• identity

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cambridge

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