… Glocker!
Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who clashed with Ramaswamy during the 2024 presidential campaign, reacted in an X post in which she wrote: “Just seeing what we tried to tell everyone back then. He’s a bad guy. It’s a shame he continues to get away with it.”
This statement from MK Pritzker came with a $500,000 donation to Amy Acton attached.
… shows Amy Acton being publicly executed.
MAGAworld is orgasming.
I’m grateful to V. Ramaswamy:
He tells me which Dem is a Commie
But the real why-oh-why-oh
He’s great for Ohio
Is his airing of Amy’s sweet mommy
Wonder why.
The leaders of the integralist thought group in the United States are Professors Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame and Adrian Vermeule of Harvard Law School. Their modus operandi is to assemble a small cadre of postliberalists, educated by them, unleash them into the government and schools, and then eventually control the United States government so that it can be governed by their version of Catholic natural law. I admit that this sounds outlandish and foolish, but they have been hard at work, and they have achieved extraordinary momentum by putting Vice President JD Vance in office…
[S]ince the rest of America [is] messed … up, they need to take over. It’s for the people’s own good, whether they agree or not. They have seen no need for a constitutional convention or popular consent, because they have abandoned representative democracy itself… [T]hey have turned on liberal—aka republican (representative)—democracy, and seek authoritarian rule to bring the people to their own faith, voluntarily or not… [Their] … goal is to re-create a long-ago past by placing Catholic theology at the top of the governing system to coerce citizens into “moral” behavior. They seek to re-integrate Catholic supremacy, as it was before the modern, sovereign state developed.
Yeah, they’ve got Vance, who shows his Catholic compassion all the time, but while UD thinks it’s only responsible to keep you up to date on America’s Christian Crusade, she’s not – er – actively worried.
Cuz it’s in super-affluent Bethesda? That doesn’t keep its vicinity from being all shot up. The four people involved will turn out to be (I predict) Walter Johnson students representing warring gangs, or hey maybe a few guys had a bit of an argument over lunch and they took it and their guns (you don’t think WJ students carry weapons?) outside, where they had at it.
If I’m right, it’s so disgusting that WJ administrators, who will turn out to know about some of these shits, allowed them to continue to attend the school.
A former professor at Penn
Thought, “Robots are evil!” So then
She planted her ass
So the bots could not pass
And now she is off to the pen.
… bring out the big guns!
Nihilists are funny until they start chewing the scenery.
Yuck.
Kate Manne, a ban-the-frats person who teaches at Cornell.
The stunningly ugly events in France, says a writer for the left wing Guardian, clear the way for Marine Le Pen’s victory in the next presidential elections.
Indeed, all of the polls show her with a commanding lead.
Some progressives here express incredulity that Le Pen might, this time, go all the way; but anyone paying attention to Le Pen’s steely rise, her decades of focused and masterful politicking, isn’t surprised. Even without nation-destroying riots cheered on by her left wing rival Mélenchon – riots which, the Guardian columnist notes, benefit only Le Pen – the National Rally represents the most popular party in the country.
She ain’t got my endorsement; but having watched her for years, I’d say she’s the consummate politician, steadfastly building credibility while Paris nihilistically burns.
… advocates for the public execution of all death penalty prisoners. Its president, pastor Doug Wilson – already famous for demanding that women be stripped of the vote – explains that “executions in the Scriptures were public.”
Revealed truth leads Christians in all things, including this one, writes Wilson, and the idea of carrying out beheadings (Romans 13:4) “in the recesses of a prison somewhere in the middle of the night” is morally repugnant, as well as heretical.
PUB-EX’s most prominent member, Pete Hegseth, has, with Wilson, launched an all-state tour to introduce the organization to the American public. Event organizers plan to distribute swag bags which will include candy-rich severed heads.

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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...
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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...
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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
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