Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley are getting the hell out. Canada ho!
Like perifascist Hungary, we are beginning to experience a brain drain, mes petites.
Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley are getting the hell out. Canada ho!
Like perifascist Hungary, we are beginning to experience a brain drain, mes petites.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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...
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Ducks and Drakes
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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
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More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
March 27th, 2025 at 3:52PM
I think people and institutions are still dazed and a bit in denial.
Columbia has been battered by so much catastrophe in the last year or so that I’m guessing it’s a ship adrift at this point and really can’t respond coherently to what’s happening to it. As to Yale, it would certainly be nice if it could get off its ass and start speaking out. Universities around the world are poaching its faculty.
March 28th, 2025 at 9:33AM
I’ll plead guilty to having faith – until recently – in the basic soundness of our political institutions.
Yes, it was intellectual vigor plus tolerance of/curiosity about global cultures that made America the most sought-after place for talented people around the world. Also we have lots of money. Thanks to our current president that’s all going away.
March 28th, 2025 at 5:13PM
No plans to go, but I’m part of EU (via my Polish husband) so there are many possibilities for us if we do decide to leave.
March 29th, 2025 at 8:44AM
Is Yale at this pass in part because a few overwrought students drove the Christakises out over a Hallowe’en memo? How long ago was that? There’s more than a few Trumpian yahoos sapping the intellectual vigor at work, particularly where the Ivies are concerned.
March 29th, 2025 at 9:27AM
Good point. The fringier reaches of woke have somewhat depopulated places like Yale too.
March 29th, 2025 at 10:47AM
Indeed, and crossing my screen this morning is a story about Helyeh Doutaghi being excused from Yale. The College Fix types are spiking the football over it. The conflicts go on; I have a railroad to work on.
March 29th, 2025 at 11:42AM
Stephen: I just posted about her.