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
July 14th, 2009 at 10:40PM
In other legal news, this seems like UD’s kind of story:
"Officer Lionberger did not see any indicia of a typical theatrical performance."
July 14th, 2009 at 11:37PM
Hey! Maybe she also got some elocution lessons.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200906160009
In a November 7, 1996 speech (PDF) at Princeton, Sotomayor listed specific books:
I spent my summers at Princeton doing things most of my other classmates took for granted. I spent one summer vacation reading children’s classics that I had missed in my prior education — books like Alice in Wonderland, Huckleberry Finn, and Pride and Prejudice. My parents spoke Spanish, they didn’t know about these books.
July 15th, 2009 at 7:39AM
Possibility re voice/accent:
http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/07/watching_the_sotomayor_hearings.php
Incidentally, a nice example of how diversity enhances discussion.
July 15th, 2009 at 10:36AM
@Dance. I was thinking the opposite. It looks like the Judge was given a quick education in the classics during the summer.
Isn’t this the opposite of the current diversity…model?
July 15th, 2009 at 3:14PM
Oh, "nice example of diversity" was a meta-comment on the link I posted—it’s to a black man, who because he is very conscious of the way in which non-white/poor people tweak their accents and develop a "second voice" to move in the highly educated world, guesses that Sotomayor’s lack of NY accent comes from that. While UD casually wonders—this is not an analysis that leaps to her mind, because she has had different experiences. (Zadie Smith’s Speaking in Tongues on Obama, of course, should be read on this issue of voices)
Sorry, that was oblique. I am currently debating the role/meaning of experience and diversity with someone via twitter, which generated my comparison between UD’s and Coates’s *very* different reading of a single observation. That type of difference in reading, I think, is exactly one of the things the idea/practice of diversity is supposed to enable. (Incidentally, debate via twitter? Wow. Interesting challenge, a unique medium)
July 15th, 2009 at 4:08PM
Hi Dance: I found the Coates take on the accent interesting – thanks for the link. But actually – in terms of diversity – Coates’s reading was exactly mine. My writing in the post that I “wondered” about Sotomayor’s voice was more about the exigencies (as I see them) of short, thought-provoking posts than about my having little idea why the second voice would have emerged. I was holding back my own take on it in order to maybe prompt some reflections from readers that wouldn’t be led in any way by that take…
One of my best friends when I was a kid was the son of a woman who’d grown up in NY and very consciously rid herself of that “first voice” in order to move, as you say, in a highly educated world.
Don’t know anything about Coates’s background (I’ve read the blog on and off for some time – got there via Andrew Sullivan), so don’t know whether our backgrounds are very diverse. But we have in common the analysis you describe.