Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
September 28th, 2012 at 9:09AM
T.Szasz, was wrong about many things but his warnings about the unholy marriage of psychiatry and state powers (police, juridical, educational) are proving prophetic and dire, and when amped up by crony capitalism all bets are off…
September 28th, 2012 at 10:33AM
I’ve written smalltime stuff critical of Big Medicine’s Iron Pyramid–the AMA, the AHA, AHIP, Big Pharma, and medical equipment makers. You need a hide like an elephant. Even well-educated folks will angrily reject facts that are readily available by direct observation or straightforward inference. Hat’s off to you, UD.
dmf, you’re right. In Ohio, the General Assembly is OSMA’s punk prison bitch. You may want to try Ivan Illich’s mostly forgotten “Medical Nemesis”.
October 1st, 2012 at 6:30AM
“Money resolves all ethical dilemmas.” That’s from a letter written years ago to The New York Times by a manager responding to an article on business ethics. (Hope my memory’s okay on that.)
“Dictatorships fear free speech because they believe too many people will care. America has the First Amendment because nobody gives a damn.” That’s what an old-timer told me when I was a young business guy.
Hippocrates nailed the down side of medicine 2500 years ago. The Oath and the Canon are mostly about resisting the temptations intrinsic to the “asymmetric” doctor-patient transaction. Anaesthesia, sulfa, and penicillin helped transform the local sawbones into an upmarket guy. But, Big Money–e. g. Medicare under its original payment formula, Rorem-Kimball group health insurance once the cash patient was finessed from practice–gave Big Medicine a free hand to cook up cures for ailments that hardly exist. (Shannon Brownlee’s a good source.) UD, thanks for allowing this vent.
October 1st, 2012 at 7:11AM
My pleasure, Jack/OH.
October 2nd, 2012 at 6:02PM
Thank you, UD, for doing some big-time heavy lifting.