Francisco Nava, 23, a politics major at Princeton University, made the news recently after admitting that he had fabricated a series of email death threats. Nava, campus police discovered, had hoped to highlight the intolerable oppression of wealthy heterosexual conservative students at the prestigious Ivy League school by staging a series of increasingly elaborate hoaxes and then blaming his political opponents.

Conservative commentators were very quick to suggest that the mainstream media had initially ignored Nava’s heartrending plight because they are simply prejudiced against the patrician aristocrats who will eventually lead the nation.

But back to Nava’s fascinating follies: the menacing emails he sent to himself and other conservative students and faculty were just a curtain raiser. The story gets much, much weirder.