{"id":1417,"date":"2026-08-10T07:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:36:28","slug":"jason-arday-barack-obama-and-the-making-of-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbaneconomynews.com\/?p=1417","title":{"rendered":"Jason Arday, Barack Obama, and the Making of Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yesterday in these pages, the inimitable Roger Kimball recounted the tall tale of Jason Arday, the youngest black professor at the University of Cambridge. As Kimball noted, Arday has been shown over the last few weeks to be more than just your average modern academic charlatan. With every passing day, it appears more and more that he\u2019s a full-throated fabulist in the contemporary sense, which is to say that he made up almost<\/em> everything about his life and public persona and plagiarized the rest. All his lies and deceptions were, however, uttered in the service of a larger purpose: to undermine the establishment and force its members to reckon with their hatreds and prejudices. Arday overcame more obstacles and barriers than the average man could ever even imagine, and therefore his struggle must be admired and applauded, while his \u201cscholarship\u201d is celebrated. Because of his bravery and courage, in the face of both fate and societal bigotry, he is owed a certain amount of deference and gratitude, irrespective of any perceived defects in the results of his professional endeavors. In short, he\u2019s a better man than the rest of us, so we should, therefore, listen to him carefully and do as he says.<\/p>\n

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Now, my initial reaction upon reading about Arday\u2019s remarkable achievements was to think of a few of our own American social and political pioneers, some who, like Arday, could manipulate time like plastic (to borrow Roger\u2019s metaphor) and others whose life experiences closely mirrored more famous experiences of others. Hillary Clinton, for example, claimed that she was named for Sir Edmund Hillary, the first Western man to scale Mt. Everest. Mrs. Clinton, of course, was born in 1947, while Sir Edmund scaled the mountain in 1953. But then, what is a mere six years in the hands of one as profoundly gifted as the twice-failed presidential candidate? Likewise, Kamala Harris, also a failed presidential candidate, once told a story about how she, as a toddler, fell out of her stroller at a civil rights march and told her parents\u2014and then the whole world\u2014that all she wanted was \u201cfweedom.\u201d Interestingly, Martin Luther King Jr. had rather famously recounted a remarkably similar story about a young girl at a march in Birmingham, Alabama, who told the whole world that all she wanted was \u201cfeedom.\u201d The difference a \u201cw\u201d can make, I guess.<\/p>\n

Of all the American politicians whose extraordinary lives\u2014and fabrications\u2014parallel Jason Arday\u2019s, however, none come close to the successful<\/em> two-time presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Obama\u2019s penchant for the dramatic is well known, as is his profoundly plastic memory. Like Arday, Obama faced hardships no one else could possibly imagine, which is strange because he did, in fact, imagine them. As I have noted before in these pages, David Maraniss\u2019s 2012 biography of the 44th<\/sup> President of the United States\u2014Barack Obama: The Story<\/em>\u2014is one of the greatest political biographies of this century, largely because it shows that its subject was a figment of his own imagination. Maraniss\u2014the associate editor of The Washington Post<\/em>, one of the nation\u2019s most respected journalists, a renowned biographer, and an avowed fan of Obama\u2019s\u2014called Obama\u2019s famous autobiography a work of \u201cliterature.\u201d In reviewing Maraniss\u2019s book, Conn Carroll, a senior editorial writer for the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/em>, was a touch more candid: \u201cPresident Obama was born in Hawaii and is an American citizen. That much is true. But\u2026it appears that almost everything else in Obama\u2019s supposed autobiography, Dreams from My Father<\/em>, is complete fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maraniss notes, for example, that Obama wrote about a friend named \u201cRegina,\u201d who, to him, represented the true African-American experience. Having been raised, in large part, by lily-white Kansas transplants to Hawaii, Obama didn\u2019t have that experience and desperately wanted it. Regina was his ticket. Unfortunately, as Maraniss points out, she didn\u2019t exist. She was \u201cbased\u201d on a girl named Caroline Boss, whom Obama met when he was a student at Occidental College. Oh, and Caroline Boss was white. How she helped Obama get in touch with his inner-black self is anyone\u2019s guess. Obama now claims Regina was a \u201ccomposite\u201d of three people, but given the role \u201cshe\u201d supposedly played in his life, that\u2019s hardly a minor technicality.<\/p>\n

More consequentially\u2014and laughably\u2014Obama claimed that his Indonesian step-grandfather, Soewarno Martodihardjo, died fighting Dutch colonizers and was a hero of the Indonesian independence movement. Maraniss, however, calls this \u201ca concocted myth in almost all respects\u201d and reports that Martodihardjo \u201cfell off a chair at his home while trying to hang drapes, presumably suffering a heart attack.\u201d Details, shmetails, I always say. Nevertheless, I concluded the following based on this reassessment of Obama\u2019s \u201clife story\u201d:<\/p>\n

Maraniss\u2019s biography is not, as Ben Smith suggests, merely a \u201cdebunking\u201d of the \u201ccore narrative\u201d of Obama\u2019s book. Rather, it is a debunking of the core narrative of Barack Obama, the man\u2014as sold to the American public. The thoughtful, post-racial politician, shaped by the experiences of his exotic Indonesian youth and his Hawaiian adolescence; the inquisitive Ivy League intellectual, informed by the diverse experiences of his white mother, his white grandparents, his colonially oppressed grandfather, and his absentee yet misunderstood intellectual father; the brilliant, yet sensitive populist whose sense of self was forged through a black identity crisis and the realization of his responsibilities to those whose skin color he shares, despite his unique and inimitable background:\u00a0none of these exist\u00a0<\/i>in any real sense of the word. All of them were fabricated. All were created completely out of whole cloth. None has any foundations in reality at all. Which is to say that the American electorate voted in 2008 for a candidate who was simply \u201cmade up.\u201d<\/p>\n

The similarities between Barack Obama and Jason Arday don\u2019t end with their shared \u201ccreative\u201d memories. Neither man crafted his public persona and captured the imagination of his contemporaries and the media in a vacuum. Both were part of the long, slow process of institutional ideological capture, driven largely by identitarian fervor, resulting in a system that both wanted and needed<\/em> a mythological hero who had overcome all manner of hardships to emerge as its redeemer. Arday in academia and Obama in politics were exactly what the dysfunction in their respective systems inevitably demanded at the time of their appearance. Both delivered, and both caused otherwise normal and sensible people to lose any sense of proportion or reality as a result. Professor Hilary Cremin, the head of the faculty of education at Cambridge, embarrassingly called Arday \u201cthe best in the world in terms of the research that you do,\u201d despite there being almost zero evidence of this. At the time, Arday had only a few publications to his name, and he apparently plagiarized at least some of them. As for Obama, the praise was similar, albeit even more embarrassingly over-the-top. Old political hands gushed at the crease in his pants or claimed that he sent a thrill up their legs. And of course, there was this:<\/p>\n

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Barack Obama isn\u2019t really one of us. Not in the normal way, anyway\u2026.<\/p>\n

Many spiritually advanced people I know (not coweringly religious, mind you, but deeply spiritual) identify Obama as a Lightworker, that rare kind of attuned being who has the ability to lead us not merely to new foreign policies or health care plans or whatnot, but who can actually help usher in\u00a0a new way of being on the planet<\/i>, of relating and connecting and engaging with this bizarre earthly experiment. These kinds of people actually help us\u00a0evolve<\/i>. They are philosophers and peacemakers of a very high order, and they speak not just to reason or emotion, but to the soul.<\/p>\n

Of course, the key difference between Arday and Obama is that when the former was caught mythologizing himself and plagiarizing from others, he was forced to resign. The latter, by contrast, dismissed charges of plagiarism as no big deal\u00a0and has never been forced by anyone, anywhere to account for his biographical fabrications. Political commentator Ben Smith\u2014also an Obama fan\u2014blamed Obama\u2019s opponents for enabling his self-mythologizing. \u201cThat the core narrative of Dreams <\/em>could have survived this long into Obama\u2019s public life is the product in part of an inadvertent conspiracy between the president and his enemies,\u201d Smith wrote. \u201cObama\u2019s young life was basically conventional, his personal struggles prosaic and later exaggerated\u2026.[R]ace, central to Obama\u2019s later thought and included in the subtitle of his memoir, wasn\u2019t a central factor in his Hawaii youth or the existential struggles of his young adulthood.\u201d Nevertheless, Republicans took the bait and helped Obama turn the country into a racial powder keg.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure that I agree with Smith\u2019s assessment in its entirety, but between them, Obama and the political establishment that swallowed his bait broke American politics in a profound and thus far irreparable way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d warn that Arday could have the same effect on academia, despite his resignation, but I doubt that very much, if for no other reason than academia was profoundly broken long before he appeared in the hallowed halls of Cambridge. Roger Kimball concluded his column yesterday, noting that \u201cCambridge has a lot more than Jason Arday to worry about.\u201d He\u2019s right. More to the point, as Kimball has shown with his own incredibly impressive body of work, dating back almost four decades, academia as a whole has a lot more than Jason Arday to worry about. Indeed, American politics was so readily breakable because of the influence of Western academia.<\/p>\n

As hard as it may be to believe, the fraud and treachery in academia may be even greater than that in politics. Whether either can be saved from its myths and mythologizers remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Read more Great and Unfortunate Fabrications<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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