Prosperum Iter Facias

There is either a genius behind Jason Arday, or he himself is one, just not of the academic kind. For example, at a bus-stop, other teenagers beat him so badly that he becomes epileptic. Many years later, two of them turn out to be among his students, and he is now godfather to one of their children. Dickens could have written that. It obviously never happened, but it is no less obviously not the invention of a stupid man. We are all laughing at Arday now, but his book is going to sell by the truckload, and who will be laughing when he sells the rights to Netflix?

Oxford need not look far to oneup Cambridge this time, since the Scofield Reference Bible must be by far the most lucrative publication of Oxford University Press, largely or entirely carrying the whole operation while exercising incalculable negative influence on geopolitics. And that the Quakers are "the sect that really rules the world" is the thesis of the latest book by Edward Dutton, whom I knew at Durham, where he once tried to seduce me after Mass, so that I know his little secret. In 2018, Evolutionary Psychological Science published this masterpiece by Dutton, who is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Mankind Quarterly, which he used to edit. Another member is Dr Adel Batterjee of Jeddah, the founder of the Benevolence International Foundation, which was placed under UN sanctions because it was a front for funding al-Qaeda.

On the Editorial Board of Evolutionary Psychological Science is the archetypal Epstein Class academic, Professor Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, although one does have to wonder for how much longer. In 2021, Pinker wrote that, "Oliver Kamm's urbanity, erudition and compassion are raised to the power of two in Mending the Mind. He put them to work in crafting this gorgeous and urgent book, and on every page they remind us of his moral that enviable gifts are no protection against the affliction of depression." Kamm, Pinker, Dutton, Batterjee. Batterjee, Dutton, Pinker, Kamm. Truly, an Axis of Evil. And Evolutionary Psychological Science has published Nathan Cofnas at least twice, including once in dialogue with Dutton. Like most of these papers, that was well before the 2022 appointment of Cofnas to Cambridge. Think on.