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
May 16th, 2011 at 10:38PM
from wiki on Carla Bruni:
“While living with Jean-Paul Enthoven, Bruni fell in love and started an affair with his son, philosophy professor Raphaël Enthoven (the song “Raphäel” from Bruni’s album Quelqu’un m’a dit is named after him), who was at the time married to novelist Justine Lévy, daughter of philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy. Bruni later denied ever having an affair with Raphaël’s father in an interview published in Vanity Fair, “I never slept with him, not even a minute.The affair and the end of her marriage inspired Justine’s 2004 book Rien de Grave (published in English in 2005 as Nothing Serious). She paints a vitriolic portrait of “Paula”, the surgically-enhanced model who steals the protagonist’s husband and describes her as “a praying mantis” and “a leech of a woman with a Terminator smile”
— match your two chambermaids with a father, son set
ahh, the French…
May 17th, 2011 at 12:07AM
cloudminder: It gets more complicated. With DSK out, one possible contender is Laurent Fabius, Carla Bruni’s ex-boyfriend.
May 17th, 2011 at 1:00AM
Sacré bleu, mon dieu– its gonna get interesting — and we hear she’s shopping pricey maternity clothes…
May 17th, 2011 at 8:18AM
It appears that we are headed for a he done it, but she wanted it defense.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:18AM
M. Lévy objects, en particulier, to the ‘perp walk’. It’ll be interesting to watch how the French react to American Justice, such as it is.
May 17th, 2011 at 9:54AM
The pre-trial perp walk is an American tradition that we would be well rid of. I am all for maintaining a post-conviction one, though.
In the meantime, here are some thoughts about perp walk etiquette.
May 17th, 2011 at 3:29PM
The leading contender now for the “Socialist” nomination is François Hollande, a rather bland-looking dude; but there may also be his ex-partner Ségolène Royal!
As for BHL, well, he’s BHL, one of our fashionable philosophers with media attention. What do you expect?
May 18th, 2011 at 10:57AM
http://www.newappsblog.com/2011/05/bernard-henri-levy-embarasses-himself-philosophy-yet-again.html#comments
May 19th, 2011 at 3:41AM
Dear Margaret,
About BHL and similar intellectuals, you may wish to read Jacques Bouveresse’s “Prodiges et vertiges de l’analogie”, and Pierre Bourdieu’s “Sur la télévision”.
May 19th, 2011 at 5:28AM
Thanks for those references, DM. I’ll take a look.