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
October 20th, 2012 at 2:04PM
Some wit in the Obama camp did come up with the term romnesia this week, and that meme is spreading fast, to the delight of many. LOL.
October 20th, 2012 at 3:57PM
adam: Yes, I’ve seen romnesia making the rounds. It’s a start.
October 20th, 2012 at 8:01PM
“the paradigmatic postmodern work of our time” — Nice. I’ll have to remember that.
October 20th, 2012 at 8:04PM
Thanks, JND.
October 21st, 2012 at 7:18AM
[…] “Using DSM-4 criteria for mental disorders, almost half the people in the US are getting a diagnos… […]
October 21st, 2012 at 7:52AM
BTW-is there an increase in the number of Ph. D pharmacists, Ph. D. pharmacy programs, etc.? If so, is there a reason? My neighbor’s daughter works as a $9 an hour retail pharmacy tech. The pharmacists do no compounding, they’re legally barred from offering diagnoses, their advice amounts to that info sheet that comes with the ‘script, etc.
Years ago I read a persuasive essay by an Africa-born American pharmacist that argued that health care would be improved if pharmacists were allowed an independent scope of practice.
October 21st, 2012 at 5:41PM
And nearly 100% of people get diagnosed with a physical ailment in their lifetime. Why should we think the mind is healthier than the body?
October 22nd, 2012 at 11:03AM
GTWMA, you’re waffling, bro’. It’s not “[a]nd nearly 100% of people will get diagnosed . . .” All of us–100%–will get a physical ailment that whacks us into nothingness or the Great Beyond.
I’m in my late 50s; the men in my family die relatively young; so I figure I have a half-decade or so to go before I check out of the hotel.
Anyway, I think UD and blogpal Allen Frances are talking about mental distress that results in commercial transactions between a patient and a practitioner who claims to alleviate that distress.