Simon & Schuster’s Disgrace

Imagine a world in which the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday had released a widely-hyped book published by Simon & Schuster, one of the Big Five publishing houses, then embarked on a book tour, and nobody said anything. For such a thing to have happened to a "renowned sociologist," a "highly respected scholar of race," "the youngest Black person ever appointed to a professorship at Cambridge"—well, that would have been racist. Instead, when Arday’s Great and Unfortunate Things…