February 11th, 2026
Epstein, Wexner, Harvard

The many erections of Leslie —
At Columbus and Harvard especially —
Whether early or late,
These will have to deflate,
Before he is held for arrestly.

October 29th, 2025
Limerick.
It really don't get any higher
Than naming your college "Messiah" -
In the chapel we praise
In the lockers we haze.
Y'all cannot wait to apply. Ja?


October 21st, 2025
Limerick
Ex-Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia
Appears to be rather a Nazia
Although not Trump's first
And far from his worst
For his loss we can only say grazia

October 6th, 2025
Limerick
The Epstein procuress Ghislaine
Is heard from again and again.
Her latest appeal?
Supremes say no deal.
Back to minim. security pen.

July 31st, 2025
Limerick
When the Vineyard's most off-putting fogey
Demanded his share of pierogi
The seller said, "Alan,
You're just not my pal, and
I think you should move to Muskogee."
July 30th, 2025
Limerick

Brevard Co.'s Representative Fine
Is so violent and wretched a swine
That even old AIPAC
Takes a startled step way back
When he speaks what is on his foul mind
July 23rd, 2025
Limerick.
Zut alors! Now ze game it is on.
Here's the lawsuit from Brigitte Macron.
And the statement from Candace?
"Ah shit man oh man, this
Is totally very pas bon."
April 21st, 2025
Limerick.

Two billionaires love Giacometti
It’s made them behave rather petty
As suits follow suits
Between rich greedy brutes
The sick’ning tableau is perfetti

March 7th, 2025
Lowest vaccination rate in Texas!
'This "measles" thing's a fed'ral plot,'
Says Mercy Culture's Pastor Schott:
'Don't need no stinkin' devil's dose.
Just Father Son and Holy Ghost.
Our kiddies' death means diddlysquat.'


February 22nd, 2025
CPAC Limerick
'Bien sûr, Monsieur Bannon's salute
Was très déclassé - oui, sans doute.
He's not a nice fella,'
Said Jordan Bardella;
'I'm leaving to reread La Chute.'

January 8th, 2025
“Oh, Iranian men, I shit in your honor…. 

Without them veils I'd be a goner.
I must have taken too much bourbon ...
Quick! Lend me PDQ your turban!
Ah. Now I feel at peace, and calmer."

October 18th, 2024
News from Oklahoma

The biblical mandate from Walters

Now faces a lawsuit and falters.

“But I ain’t forlorn.

My obsession with porn

Sustains me against all assaulters.”

August 27th, 2024
Cap’n Don

He drew his sword out of its scabbard

Then proudly he stood up and slabbered,

“Our Bobby’s repulsy

But nae like our Tulsi!

Come on, Dems! Prepare to be Gabbar’d!!”

August 26th, 2024
Limerick

I’m pissing myself over Tuesday’s debate

And I’m wondering now if it isn’t too late

To throw out some crap

To get the thing scrapped.

I know nothing, and there’s so much at stake.

August 18th, 2024
Limerick.

America’s a wasteland, says Vance guru Peter Thiel

I’m boxing up my billions and I’m moving to New Zeal.

Patriots like me believe

If you don’t like the US, leave.

Fuck that ‘Make America Great Again’ spiel.

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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

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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.
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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.
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The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
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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.
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University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
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[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
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