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 24th, 2010 at 1:58PM
The guy has deleted the post, because of the extremely hostile comments (and even threats) that he says he received.
http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2010/09/uc-law-prof.html
Whatever your feeling about the merits or lack thereof of his arguments and his writing style, surely this level of invective directed at him should be of concern.
More here:
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/09/will-law-professors-rally-around.html
September 25th, 2010 at 7:25AM
Whatever your feeling about the merits or lack thereof of his arguments and his writing style, surely this level of invective directed at him should be of concern.
Welcome to the internet, where invective resembles high-altitude bombing with its benefit of anonymity. Incoming indeed.
September 25th, 2010 at 12:25PM
Michael..I’ve been on the Internet for a while now, and have a pretty thick skin..not sure how this guy’s Internet experience and thickness-of-skin rates. But if anyone makes physical threats against a blogger or his family, that person should be prosecuted. And if someone attempts to interfere with someone else’s employment on grounds of his opinions (except for a small number of cases where the opinion is actually directly relevant to that employment), then that’s pretty despicable. Not sure if the abusive comments in this case reached these levels, but it sounds like they might have.
There are also way too many cases of attempted intimidation going on in the physical world, with no direct connection the Internet: note for instance the thuggish and apparently illegal behavior of an SEIU mob at an executive’s home in Chevy Chase, MD, and the voter intimidation apparently conducted by the New Black Panther Party, which the Obama administration has tried to cover up.