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
November 21st, 2010 at 1:13AM
Zerohedge points out they have been banging the drum on this malaise in the markets for quite some time. It’s always unsettling when the people who are accused of having the biggest tinfoil hats are the ones right on the money.
November 21st, 2010 at 5:16AM
Hedge Fund persons are anticipated to be on the conceited side. But for them to sense they are entitled to their special status as the last insider brings into question the idea that the majority of us has an opportunity of making money off investments. Which compromises potential growth of economy.
November 21st, 2010 at 5:51AM
Not sure I understand your point, Elli; but if you mean that the word “insider” – and various legitimate forms of insider information – shouldn’t be tainted by this crime, agreed.
November 21st, 2010 at 10:27AM
I read Elli’s comment as saying something like:
“The majority of us may come to believe that the game has been rigged in their own favor by the insiders, so that we who are outsiders can no longer make money by investing. But if we stop investing, then the economy will cease to grow.”
To which I say: in that case, let it cease to grow!
Our growing economy no longer creates enough new jobs *in this country* for the jobless. Nor does enough of the growth trickle down to the paychecks of those *in this country* who still do have jobs, so that they can keep on holding their own ground economically.
To put it in other terms, a rising tide may indeed lift all boats. However, it also drowns all those who have no boat of their own, or whose boats have been drilled full of holes by the insiders. The majority of us seem well on our way to drowning in this growing economy of ours.