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
March 6th, 2009 at 5:00AM
Last season’s fruit is eaten
And the full-fed beast shall kick the empty pail.
Ron Charles just doesn’t realize he’s the empty pail.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:41AM
Well said. Plus, note that the evidence of what everybody was reading in the 1960s amounts to "what my friend now says everybody SHE knew was reading."
Looking at the NYTimes best-seller list for the golden age of radicalism doesn’t exactly overwhelm you with subversive literature of epochal quality: Airport, Love Story, The Godfather, Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Sure, there’s some good stuff in there as well (Portnoy’s Complaint, French Lieutenant’s Woman), but most times most places most people are NOT reading radical literature.
March 6th, 2009 at 9:44AM
[…] I think superficial readers of poetry (like the writer I talk about in a recent post titled Nothing’s More Reactionary than Mental Confusion) are getting excited about a […]
March 6th, 2009 at 10:08AM
Nothing is more pathetic than these latter-day lefty Nestors bewailing the young’uns.
Resume of Nestor Charles:
1964: The University of California at Berkeley. Called cop a "mofo pig" from behind curtain of 4th floor dorm window.
1965: The University of California at Berkeley. After Malcolm’s assassination, formed white auxiliary of Black Muslims; respectfully disbanded after learning they didn’t need help from a bunch of Yakub’s devils.
1966: Princeton University. Burned draft card. (despite what you hear, Father’s campaign contributions had nothing to do with 4-F rating)
1967: Princeton University. Occupied dean’s office; demanded that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead replace Iliad in freshman reading list. 27-hour hunger strike ended after fascist administration fails to cave.
1968: Chicago, Illinois. Discovered that lower-income Democratic policeman in future home of godlet do not appreciate being called "mofo pig." Bailed out by Father.
1969: Woodstock, New York. Bought killer weed from local on Aug. 1; heard about concert later in month.
1970: Cambridge, Massachusetts. Millett’s Sexual Politics sensitizes me to The Patriarchy and provides new avenues to get into the pants of confused and semi-radicalized undergraduate chicks.
1971: Boston, Massachusetts. Read Steal This Book. Attempt to practice anticipatory communism thwarted by reactionaries in Southie. Father’s attorney beat shoplifting rap.
1972: Boston, Massachusetts. Heard stunning new theory of parthenogenesis by Mary Daly; unfortunately, then-girlfriend not persuaded this was the cause of her missed periods. Father paid for medical procedure.