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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
January 7th, 2015 at 5:08AM
Dr. Carson’s a great guy, I suppose. But, he’s made most of his money as a practitioner from health care financing that’s pretty much collectivist in impulse.
Allow me to quote from my own unpublished manuscript.
“Inspired by talked-about ideas of regularizing health care costs in the United States, and the ruling Bolsheviks’ tinkering with medical distribution in the Soviet Union, [economist Clarence] Rorem adapted the idea [of group health insurance].”
Would Dr. Carson and other AMA-type political doctors have us believe that a scheme that enrolls the $10 an hour janitor and the $300 an hour executive in the same insurance group arose from free markets in action?
January 7th, 2015 at 8:39AM
can’t he just blame it on his ghostwriter?
this whole “people who don’t write” publishing books thing is ridiculous.
January 7th, 2015 at 9:42AM
Much to love in this story, e.g. this bit about Carson’s plagiarism in college: “I had done it before without consequences and probably would have continued doing it if I had not been caught.”
I’m particularly fascinated by this tactic, which I’ve never encountered before:
“Sealey Yates, a spokesperson for the world-renowned neurosurgeon, thanked BuzzFeed for revealing Carson’s plagiarism. ‘If it is determined that additional citations or attribution are required, the appropriate revisions will be made in subsequent printings,’ Yates promised. ‘Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention.'”
This is a bit like Al Capone telling Elliot Ness and the IRS, “Thank you for bringing these matters to my attention. If it is determined that additional taxes are owed, appropriate revisions will be made in subsequent returns. Now go away and leave me alone.”
January 7th, 2015 at 9:59AM
Dr_Doctorstein: I had the same thought about the tactic. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!