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
February 29th, 2012 at 2:56AM
Disgraced? How so? What charges were proven against him? An indictment was brought against him and then it was dismissed with the judge criticizing the DA who brought the indictment.
February 29th, 2012 at 7:10AM
Well, when the best character reference you can give a guy is that he’s never been convicted…
February 29th, 2012 at 10:54AM
TAFKAU,
It’s not a question of the best character reference. He might have a better character reference for all I know. Usually when one says disgraced, it implies criminal conduct. So my question was what the justification for saying that about him.
February 29th, 2012 at 11:17AM
Here is an answer.
http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2010/12/impeachment-its-about-institution-not.html
February 29th, 2012 at 12:24PM
AYY: “Disgraced” – a word routinely attached to Gonzales’ name – often has nothing to do with criminal conduct. D. Strauss-Kahn comes to mind.
February 29th, 2012 at 1:11PM
Bernard, Your link doesn’t answer the question. It says nothing about Gonzales and we can’t assume that’s why UD used the term.
UD, so you’re just repeating what others have said without making your own judgment, even though a person’s reputation is involved? Under your rationale you could just as easily have used the term “smeared.”
Disgraced has been attached to his name on the Think Progress website, and by Brian Leiter. But those sites have blatant left wing agendas, and lack credibility with those who do not march in lockstep to their views.
Disgraced implies that Gonzales did something that is criminal and was found guilty, or that there is consensus among the population as a whole (not just a political subset) that he did something non-criminal but seriously wrong, and so far no one has pointed out how that’s the case with Gonzales. “Disgraced” shouldn’t be used to mean “someone the left smeared because he did something the left disagreed with.”
If Strauss-Kahn was innocent, or framed, then it’s hardly accurate to use “disgraced” in connection with his name.
February 29th, 2012 at 2:56PM
As a Texas Tech graduate, I personally liked this quotation from the Tuberville article.
“Tuberville is a fraud as the Head Coach at Texas Tech, too.”
So painfully true!
July 1st, 2012 at 1:33AM
Now that our present attorney general has been found in contempt of the House, and may have played a major role in the Fast and Furious scandal, should we refer to him as “Eric Holder” or as the “Disgraced Eric Holder”?
September 1st, 2012 at 7:11AM
[…] protracted practices; physical and psychological roughing up; verbal abuse. (Background here. Oh wait, that’s about TTU coach Tommy Tuberville’s multiple fraud schemes…. […]