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B&R guest and friend of the pod Sarah Ditum reviews Arday's book.

>When a journalist from the Times Higher Education Supplement began investigating the plagiarism claims last year, Arday reported him to the police. The police told the journalist the case was closed, but that he should refrain from contacting Arday because it was affecting Arday’s mental health.
Maybe I should turn myself in to the nearest cop shop now, because this review is not going to improve Arday’s mood. Great and Unfortunate Things is mawkish, self-aggrandising and hard to believe. Extraordinary claims are made with no supporting evidence. Arday’s story — regardless of its authenticity — feels precision-tooled to flatter the biases of the sappiest white liberals.

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He was the subject of Episode 199.

Friend of the pod, Helen Lewis, in The Atlantic, on yesterday's ruling.

>...the left has become trapped in the position that sports inclusion is at once so existential that it’s worth taking to the Supreme Court, but also a “non-issue” affecting only a handful of students, whose opponents must be therefore motivated by spite. As the center-left commentator Matthew Yglesias puts it, “The conventional wisdom in Dem politics is that the sports issue is simultaneously trivial and also so important that you can’t compromise with public opinion on it.”

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This is the article Katie and Phoebe were discussing for a chunk of the recent episode. Figured it's worth a post for people to discuss.

ETA: Not sure why the headline auto-populated with that. The actual article headline is, "There’s Nothing Wrong With Wanting Men".

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The EEOC files a lawsuit against the NY Times for racial discrimination.

Pod relevance: DEI, NYT drama, anti-racism backlash