Race, IQ, and the Jason Arday DEI scandal with NATHAN COFNAS | “YOUR WELCOME” #432

About this episode

What happens when telling the truth makes you the villain, and then the scandal proves you weren't crazy? Michael Malice (“YOUR WELCOME”) welcomes philosopher and academic, Nathan Cofnas, for an honest conversation about the Jason Arday plagiarism scandal, DEI, and the ideological pressures shaping academia. Nathan explains how an academic investigation became a supposed race campaign, what finally made the scandal impossible to ignore, and how Nathan found himself at the center of it. They also discuss Arday’s death, the pressures that kept the allegations buried, and whether Nathan regrets pulling the thread. Then Michael asks the questions you're probably not supposed to ask: Is IQ research inherently racist? What does genetics actually tell us about intelligence? And is censorship actually creating more racists? Nathan makes an incredible case for openly discussing human biodiversity AND argues that suppressing uncomfortable ideas may be doing the exact opposite of what its defenders intend. So what does the Arday scandal really expose: Is it just a few bad actors in academia, or are we dealing with a university system too ideologically compromised to save? https://x.com/na