Nathan Cofnas
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Sep 15, 2026
Aubrey HirschHOST
In February twenty twenty-three, Jason Arday was appointed as a professor in Cambridge, the youngest Black professor ever.
Aubrey HirschHOST
At the same time in Cambridge, there was an individual by the name of Nathan Cofnas, who was a postdoctorate researcher in philosophy at Cambridge.
Aubrey HirschHOST
In twenty twenty-six, this Cofnas published on information given to him Arday's two thousand and fifteen PhD, having run it through software which flagged substantial overlap with earlier works and therefore said that this was a plagiarized work.
Aubrey HirschHOST
And then he said there were totally implausible biographical claims made by Arday.
Connor TomlinsonGUEST
At no point did he.
Connor TomlinsonGUEST
Instead, he, he actually, uh, previously, the, the Times journalist that tried to get the scoop before Nathan Cofnas, he sent the police round to his door.
Connor TomlinsonGUEST
So that's clearly not repenting for your wrongdoing before he exited this mortal coil
Albie AmankonaGUEST
Look-
Ben RubinHOST
So this is from the Byline Times, who've been speaking about a supposed race science network that penetrated Cambridge University and targeted Jason Arday.
Ben RubinHOST
And the fact that Nathan Cofnas, the chap on the left there, if we can just get that slide back up, we can see he's the Jewish academic, former Cambridge academic, whose article and various writings sparked the events around Arday, the investigations, the, uh, the, the articles in the mainstream press.
Ben RubinHOST
Um, who is part of a network that includes Peter Thiel, so one of the, uh, uh, founders of PayPal, uh, one of the, uh, first external, the first external backer of Facebook, um, uh, one of the founders of Palantir as well.
Ben RubinHOST
He's been putting a lot of money into Cambridge, um, particularly into the networks around James Orr, who is the policy chief for reform, as well as into, um, uh, individuals surrounding Toby Young's free speech union.
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Ben RubinHOST
Um, and he does talk on the issue of slavery and reparations, but he never does mention that his family's from the Slave Coast, which I, I think is probably a bit remiss on his part.
Ben RubinHOST
Um, now let's have another listen to another leading voice in this, in this space, uh, Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu talking about racism, of course.
Shola Mos-ShogbamimuSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So, Nathan Cofnas is a white Jewish man.
Shola Mos-ShogbamimuSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
A white Jewish man who is a white supremacist because he is a white man.
Mike SlaterHOST
[upbeat music] Thanks for listening to Breitbart News Daily.
Mike SlaterHOST
Here is Dr. Nathan Cofnas.
Mike SlaterHOST
Uh, Jason Arday was exposed for being a, a compulsive liar.
Mike SlaterHOST
"I ran 30 marathons in 35 days." [chuckles] Like, you know, crazy stuff like that.
Coleman HughesHOST
Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.
Coleman HughesHOST
My guest today is Nathan Cofnas.
Coleman HughesHOST
Nathan is a philosopher whose research focuses on the philosophy of biology, ethics, and the relationship between science and values.
Coleman HughesHOST
He earned his doctorate in philosophy from Oxford and was a fellow at the University of Cambridge from 2022 to 2025.
Sheree MackHOST
Um, so we do talk about Professor Jason Arday again.
Sheree MackHOST
And a side note here, let's just say Nathan Cofnas, behind every accusation is a confession.
Sheree MackHOST
And I will be sharing the article that was in The Canary, which details Cofnas' background and how he's such a, he's such a fraud himself.
Sheree MackHOST
He points the finger at other people as a way of taking the spotlight off himself because it's him, him who's fraudulent, him who isn't an academic, him who's been financed by far-right big tech people.
Ralph ScholhammerGUEST
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Ralph ScholhammerGUEST
Nathan Cofnas, right? The, the gentleman here who was very critical of Arday in his day for the plagiarism and, you know, for the hiring practices that should have prevented, uh, Mr.
Ralph ScholhammerGUEST
Arday from ever becoming a professor at Cambridge, and he's now being silenced.
Ralph ScholhammerGUEST
He's now being suspended from his institution.
Gad SaadHOST
Hi, everybody, this is Gad Saad.
Gad SaadHOST
Continuing the tradition of inviting embattled academics on the show, today I've got Dr. Nathan Cofnas, who is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Ghent.
Gad SaadHOST
He's been recently suspended for reasons that we will be talking about on the show.
Gad SaadHOST
Nathan, welcome on the show.
RobHOST
Yeah.
JamieHOST
Like, and, you know, with that, with that sort of corrective now, now out there, uh, I did wanna add a little bonus update as well, um, because I've got a Twitter post from none other than Nathan Cofnas.
JamieHOST
So he posted this-
RobHOST
Oh.
RobHOST
Good
JamieHOST
...
JamieHOST
there was, there was also another, there was another post, uh, underneath, uh, in response to this by someone else suggesting that, um, uh, Petra De Sutter was, had been using ChatGPT, and Nathan Cofnas said that he had basically analyzed her speech to, to work out, one of her speeches to work out that she had been using ChatGPT.
JamieHOST
So this, this guy is a fucking hack at best.
Antoinette LattoufHOST
Um, but somebody who did cause some degree of harm, if I may just go on a small tangent, because I had this conversation.
Antoinette LattoufHOST
I don't know if I had it on the show with you, but we definitely had it off mic where I said, "Watch this guy," Nathan Cofnas, who was the person that broke the Jason Arday story, on his Substack.
Antoinette LattoufHOST
The race realist who, uh, is-
Jan FranHOST
The race realist.
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