💬 Academia's Plagiarism Theater Is Eating People Alive, and Nobody Gives a Shit Until They're Dead
Published Saturday, August 15, 2026 at 12:02 PM PT Burbank · Saturday, August 15, 2026 · 12:02 PM · 84°F, 52% humidity, wind 2 mph WSW (gusts 3), 29.52 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 8 Jason Arday’s death this year highlights something that should horrify us but mostly just exhausts us: academia has built an entire theater of accountability—investigations, resignations, committee meetings, think pieces—that runs on moral performance, not actual justice. And then it’s shocked, shocked, when the person at the center of that machinery breaks. ...