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 3rd, 2016 at 9:27AM
The cheese and the subject. Savory and un. A story twice blue.
And if he has a lot of pull, this Member (of the EU –Ewww) might just get off.
Sorry. Its just one of those days, waiting as Elvis Costello might say, “waiting for the end of the world — for the orange,flaming asteroid, heading roughly in our direction who will likely miss, but just might hit. Just in case I’m abooout to start my Canadian language tapes.
These lyrics always crack me up in the last understated line.
Waiting for the End of the World
E. Costello (Declan Mc Manus)
“We were waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Waiting for the end of the world
Dear Lord, I sincerely hope you’re coming
‘Cause you really started something”
September 3rd, 2016 at 11:41AM
He must be very handy, since he has chosen the right tool for the job. Was he in the plumbing aisle?
September 3rd, 2016 at 2:01PM
Hey man, this thread has gotten outta hand….
September 3rd, 2016 at 3:09PM
Yikes, I’m not sure I meant to start this. But I’ll acknowledge it as my fault. I think it was the Rochefort, blue cheese, blue movie pairing. But I am now out on this thread with any apologies due. I will admit to laughing at the other entries, while feeling rejuvenated in the worst way — as a 12 year-old boy again.
September 3rd, 2016 at 3:37PM
Polish Peter: MAJOR laugh out loud.
Mr UD and I did spend some time wondering about…. accessories…
September 3rd, 2016 at 4:39PM
According to reports, M. Rochefort was in a Castorama store. When I’ve seen these stores in Poland, the name “Castorama” has always amused me, so there must be a joke in there somewhere waiting to get out.
September 3rd, 2016 at 6:03PM
Palme d’Or?
September 3rd, 2016 at 6:23PM
JackOH: Very good.
September 3rd, 2016 at 6:33PM
They all knew there was something amiss
When they saw him emit his own bliss.
Though the children weren’t fazed,
And this perp was not tased,
His good name will be stinking like piss.
September 3rd, 2016 at 7:44PM
Greg, it was a question of blue cheese, blue movie and blue balls…..