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 24th, 2010 at 2:35PM
I wonder how much the proliferation of lawyers has to do with the accelerating loss of civility in our society. I bet it’s a lot.
July 24th, 2010 at 3:23PM
Yes, as you will find in any group of people, there are lawyers who are rude, aggressive, obnoxious, and a blight upon the profession and our society. Yet there are also thousands of attorneys who volunteer their services to assist indigent persons, battered women, non-profit organizations, and social service agencies. See, for example, the column entitled “Of greatest value is that which we give away” at http://mnbenchbar/2009/10/of_greatest-value_is_that_which_we_give_away/
Harper Lee’s father was the real life inspiration for Atticus Finch, and there are many attorneys who carry on the pro bono publico tradition of the legal profession every day.
July 24th, 2010 at 3:35PM
Michael…I know many lawyers who are fine people. But the very nature of the profession tends to encourage a certain adversarial and verbally-aggressive mindset…some individuals can isolate this from the other aspects of their lives, but many can not or do not. As the number of lawyers has grown, this is bound to have an impact on society. This has little to do with pro bono work or lack of same.
Many people, if trapped in an elevator, would have wanted to ensure that the situation was brought to the attention of building management, the appropriate regulatory authorities, and perhaps the elevator manufacturer, and was taken seriously. But I don’t think most people would pontificate about holding them “publicly accountable”…and I think lawyers are more likely to engage in this particular type of verbal hostility than are members of the general population.
July 26th, 2010 at 9:24AM
This isn’t about lawyers. It’s about elite academics and their backslappy ties to power. Tribe got his free pass on Elena Kagan’s watch. So did Dershowitz and Ogletree. According to this, Kagan herself used to ghostwrite for Tribe. We don’t hold such people accountable. We anoint them. Or, rather, they anoint each other while we sit back and watch.