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Best headline today.
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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
September 28th, 2018 at 8:22AM
Lots of rage over a GOP tactic that cleverly elicited that Blasey was a liar(will she paddle a canoe to her next Hawaiian vacation?), a total tool of Dirty Di (doesn’t know who paid for the polygraph?–lol), and not only made her toss her bff under the bus, but if taken seriously, suggests that she left said bff in the clutches of rapey drunk boys without saying a word to her. What a friend, eh? No campaign commercial moments with some old white Republican guy asking her semi-pointed questions about her own drunken teenage years, the milieu of which is nicely captured by her own institution’s yearbooks that some wise person managed to download before they were vanished from the Internet.
The somewhat surprising thing is that after nearly three months of undoubtedly frantic research and wheedling, no pussy-hat-wearing classmate could be found to remember that, hey–she was at the party too. It all goes back to timelines. BK’s calendars are not, of course, unique, nor are mountains of family scrapbooks with lovingly annotated places and dates, especially in the affluent realms BK and CB grew up in. The more named people who are injected into the mix, the more difficult to be sure that one of them doesn’t have some ironclad evidence of having been elsewhere. It’s one thing entirely to sign a statement saying “we believe Christine” and quite another to put yourself in the cross-hairs of a perjury investigation. My guess is that not only do the committee investigators have fairly detailed timelines for the two other boys that summer, but BK has only laid some of his cards on the table, and that there were probably other family events not on the calendars for which evidence can be provided in case someone decides to roll the dice and claim the party took place on some open date. This, of course, is why the committee Democrats want yet another FBI investigation. They need a definite date at which the current 5 named individuals + a perjurer to be designated were demonstrably in town on the same day and available at the same time. You also need to be sure that the weather was cooperative (no swimming on rainy or stormy days), and of course, you need to be sure the pool was actually open.