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
September 22nd, 2010 at 9:32AM
Both instances are speech, not writing, and reporters aren’t allowed to clean up quotes any more, so it’s hard to tell whether or not grammatical standards are declining.
September 22nd, 2010 at 9:40AM
Mr Punch: Little Icks are about speech as well as about writing.
September 22nd, 2010 at 10:51AM
Have you seen this man’s 2000-page suicide note? It was emailed out to seemingly all of academia in advance. It doesn’t seem like his death had anything to do with “urban contexts” except in the most abstract way.
September 22nd, 2010 at 11:01AM
Rita: I haven’t seen the suicide note, and I’ll admit that when I read of its length I really didn’t want to go there.
September 22nd, 2010 at 11:24AM
I skimmed when I got it over the weekend (I thought it was a bizarre joke until the Crimson ran his name today–you should see the CC list) and I think he read Nietzsche and critiques of modernity and concluded that the most philosophical thing to do to demonstrate the impossibility of rational liberalism is suicide? It’s insanely long, but the writing is surprisingly lucid.
September 22nd, 2010 at 11:26AM
Were the recipients mainly Harvard faculty and students? You make me want to look at it… Is it easy to get?
September 22nd, 2010 at 11:40AM
I’m really not impressed about this quote. It’s really sad that it’s so real.
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:21PM
See here. It’s, erm, different. He seems to have been obsessed with the Norman Conquest. It includes chapter headings like “The Seditious Genius of the Spiritual Penis of Jesus.” Make up your own mind.
September 22nd, 2010 at 2:40PM
Alan: Thanks. Rita also sent it to me, and I’ve read the last forty pages or so. I avoided the part you mention – sounded uninterestingly crazy — but the final section is interesting. I’ve been making some notes about it, and may post about it later today.