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
November 16th, 2009 at 5:22PM
Heidegger-schmeidegger,
Most philosophical
Disputes are ended
By logic, alas.
Muscovite thinkers work
Less syllogistically,
Argument one being
Kicking your ass.
November 16th, 2009 at 5:40PM
"Authorities said the scuffle was won by the Cartesian representative, who thought himself able to float like a butterfly *and* sting like a bee, and therefore could do so."
November 16th, 2009 at 5:41PM
They had probably gotten into an argument about the outcome of that afternoon’s soccer match.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:08PM
Husserl-Tusserl,
Backers of Nietzsche say
"If we don’t kill you then
Stronger you’ll be.
When we get through with you
So metafistically
You will then bench-press two
Hundred and three."
November 16th, 2009 at 6:08PM
The guy on Dimitri Pisarev
Was using up time for Likhachev.
The expert on Lossky
Was being a bossky
Which pissed off the guy on Leontiev.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:17PM
RJO: I thought I’d seen them all. What a beaut. Thanks.
November 16th, 2009 at 6:44PM
The first step is admitting I have a problem . . .
David Hume had a girlfriend Rosa,
Who was pinched on the ass by Spinoza.
Dave said "Listen, Baruch,
Now put up your dukes.
You’re about to get punched in the nosa."
November 16th, 2009 at 10:43PM
Perhaps they all wanted to be the first one to respond to the frantic call, "Is there a Doctor of Philosophy in the house?"
November 17th, 2009 at 11:53AM
This Pythonism is perhaps too well known.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur5fGSBsfq8
The story reminds me, however, of a slightly related situation at the University of Chicago in the ’60s.
When I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, I played occasionally on the football team of the house where I lived (a kind of dormitory). The university prided itself on having gotten rid of inter-collegiate athletic contests some time in the 1930s, so everything was intra-mural, between teams from different residence halls or houses. Ours was called the Flying Bolsheviks, and we had one or two more players than the usual American set for a team. We didn’t tell our opponents about our extras, just had them stand on the sidelines and unobtrusively enter the field when a large conflict came near. Instead of the usual full-back, half-back, quarter-back and whatever else was usual, our team had two rather large and muscled fellows called Means, while all the other members were known as Ends, whose job was to justify the Means.
This being the period of anti-Vietnam war protests, the FBI sent photographers to record who the Marxists were.
November 17th, 2009 at 1:39PM
Jeremy: Means and Ends– LOL.