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
May 20th, 2010 at 4:28PM
You may be winning me over on this anti-burka crusade, Margaret, but I like it a lot better when it is combatted in the way it is in this anecdote: through the pressure of disapproval, even shunning, from one’s own community.
May 20th, 2010 at 4:35PM
I agree, Alan. That’s the best way possible to combat it.
But people have to feel able, as this woman did, to act on their disapproval, their shunning. They have to refuse to cooperate with the inhumanity of the burka.
I think a public discourse in which high-profile people with integrity speak of the burka as an obvious outrage needs to take place. It’s beginning to happen, actually.
May 20th, 2010 at 5:12PM
Agreed. And maybe that will give others the courage to speak out, and when necessary to shun.
May 21st, 2010 at 9:39AM
I like that Alan called it your crusade, UD, because that’s exactly what bothers me about many of your anti-burka posts—the notion that the burka is an obvious evil, no analysis or explanation needed.
This piece, however, is not like that, and is much more persuasive. Thank you for posting it. (Haven’t yet read it all, but saved to read later.)
May 21st, 2010 at 9:52AM
Well, I’ve tried hard to provide lots of explanation on this blog for my strong objection to the burqa, dance. Searching through my burqa posts will demonstrate that, I think. I’ve written about security issues, health issues, the withdrawal from civic life, the rejection of democratic values, virtual imprisonment by coercive husbands, and so forth.
With the pressure of anti-burqa legislation, this basically hidden cultural behavior is becoming less hidden. As the practice of putting women in burqas sees the light of day, yet more reasons will emerge to oppose it. I will continue to chronicle those reasons.