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
July 2nd, 2015 at 3:41PM
I don’t disagree with the article, but I’d hate to be the guy to tell everyone, “Hey, your tax code is totally verkackt. Here’s your tax bill for a zillion dollars.”
On the other hand . . . I heard a legislator back in the 1990s claim that the tax code is a more or less accurate reflection of America’s actual policy preferences. I’m not quite buying it, but I guess there’d be someone who’d say it’s anti-democratic to not permit deductions, exemptions, and what-not for which there’s public support.
July 2nd, 2015 at 7:54PM
At the same time, you can tell plenty of others: “And here’s the reduction in your tax bill, because now we aren’t giving someone else an exemption.”
July 4th, 2015 at 8:08AM
anon, yeah, there’s the flip side.
Ohio’s governor recently signed a tax bill that lowers income tax rates, but raises excise taxes, regressive taxes that disproportionately hurt poor consumers. The same tax bill redistributes revenues from wealthier school districts to poorer school districts. Anyone fool enough to believe there’s a coherent philosophy behind this junk bill?
Government compulsion is a sumbitch. I lean toward transparent and simple single or single-rate taxes, but I suppose there are a ton of arguments against them.
UD is on to something big though. Some enterprising politicians are going to make connections: big institutions, government funding, student loan default and delinquency rates, tax exemption, stories (such as UD’s) of highly irregular campus conduct, etc. Campus insiders, I think, need to be aware their institutions may be vulnerable for political reasons unconnected with their actual teaching or research skills.