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
August 23rd, 2010 at 6:39AM
Mr. UD is a discerning man.
I have been on the receiving end of many gushy lectures about the wonders of Volvos. Usually while driving them to the garage to pick up their wondercars after the fourth repair of the year.
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:47AM
I admit to being a TJ’s fan. A box of tasty cereal for (only!) $3, one banana for (only!) $.19, -and- the only place in town where you can buy a bar of Valhrona dark chocolate (the price is irrelevant). What’s not to like?
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:49AM
tp: Mr UD also thinks they’re ugly. Even the more recent models, which seem to me not particularly ugly.
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:49AM
Three words
Three Buck Chuck
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:52AM
I hear you, MattF. But — fruit?? Good produce??? Good bread????
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:11AM
True, I don’t generally buy their fruits or meats (except for the occasional kosher chicken). Their high-low strategy (either cheap-and-tasty or expensive-and-unique) doesn’t work for some things. They are also notorious for unexplained disappearances– e.g., why did the frozen brown rice vanish for six months, and then suddenly reappear? Still, TJ’s helps me avoid always-expensive Whole Foods, and there’s something to be said for that.
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:34AM
There being no Trader Joe’s in Texas, shopping at a TJ is one of the things we do when we visit the coasts. If we fly, we limit ourselves to cases of fruit leathers, but when we’re on a road trip we pack coolers.
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:40AM
(sigh) I know I’m out of my element. We small town, squarish-shaped state, Deep South Americans don’t get the pleasure of a Trader Joe’s except when we visit the big city. No one ever writes glamorous articles about Winn Dixies.
August 23rd, 2010 at 2:33PM
Nuts! Trader Joe’s has the best selection of nuts and at a reasonable price.
August 23rd, 2010 at 3:08PM
Tobe: Agreed.
August 24th, 2010 at 4:45PM
I have never been in a Trader Joe’s, living as I do in a mostly-dry state in “flyover land.” I suspect the cachet is partly a hipness, “it’s not ‘everywhere'” sort of thing.
Friends in California tell me it’s great if you want the pre-prepared food, not quite so much if you tend to be a from-scratch cook.
I dunno. I shop at Kroger’s when I have time to get down there, and I shop at the dreaded Wal-Mart the rest of the time, because it’s pretty much the only choice that doesn’t involve a half-hour drive both ways.