Carol Platt Liebau: Corruption Exposed at Cambridge

Americans already suspect that higher education is a politicized grift. And Jason Arday's story won't convince them otherwise. Arday was celebrated as the youngest black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge - despite a history of fabulism that defies belief. He's claimed to have been nonverbal until age 11; unable to read until 18; to have run 600 miles in 65 days; raised more…