April 14th, 2018
La Kid’s just out of minor surgery and texts UD that she is…

… “dosed up on morpheme.”

March 18th, 2018
La Kid, Chilly Dublin, Saint Patrick’s Day

March 3rd, 2018
After the snow…

La Kid, Merrion Square, Dublin.

March 1st, 2018
It’s Freezing in Ireland.

La Kid snuggles in bed.

February 24th, 2018
La Kid, looking movie-star-esque…

… at a Dublin ball.
Last night.

November 11th, 2017
I don’t know where we get our reputation for global ignorance.

[When comic Kathy Griffin, in her show in Dublin,] referred to “being in the United Kingdom,” she was startled by the reaction of the Dublin audience. The packed crowd of die-hard fans turned on her, hissing and booing. She seemed thrown off-balance, and had trouble returning to her story.

November 5th, 2017
Bray to Greystones.

La Kid, right now,
hiking the Bray to
Greystones Coastal Trail
on one of those incomparable
Irish afternoons.

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The names of seashore towns run out to sea…

The photo makes me think of Elizabeth Bishop’s
also incomparable poem, “The Map.”

October 29th, 2017
La Kid Does Medusa…

… for her Dublin Halloween.

October 16th, 2017
Hurricane Ophelia Makes a Rainbow in Dublin

La Kid just snapped this photo
from her apartment’s sitting room.

August 11th, 2017
UD’s Jet Setting Kid Spends Today…

… at the Dublin Horse Show.

She sends this snap.

July 30th, 2017
La Kid, Right Now, Croke Park, Quarter Finals, Roscommon/Mayo

Gaelic football? Something of
that sort.

I mean, you can watch it.

June 25th, 2017
La Kid, Yesterday, Dublin Pride Parade

April 8th, 2017
La Kid (foreground)…

… with her buddies on a sunny Irish day
on the Bray to Greystones Cliffwalk.

March 18th, 2017
La Kid, Dublin, in the Rain and Wind, on Saint Patrick’s Day.

January 21st, 2017
An American in Dublin

La Kid takes part in

Ireland’s Women’s March.
Happening now.

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As for the local march,
here’s a representative headline.

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UD‘s cousin Karen (actress
and director), on her way
to the DC march this AM.

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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.
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[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
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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...
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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. ...
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I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
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As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
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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

[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.
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