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
December 7th, 2012 at 7:40PM
I did not expect you to be an important source of Psy-related news. But it is amusing that you are.
December 7th, 2012 at 8:15PM
PS: amusing and charming
December 7th, 2012 at 8:22PM
His apology is actually pretty good:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/psy-apologizes-for-anti-american-performances-20121207
His PR flunkie is much better than most.
December 7th, 2012 at 9:01PM
Comments at Lucianne.com, UD‘s go-to source for the Tea Party brew, are somewhat surprisingly mixed.
Some of them are just as bonkers as Psy’s original screed.
December 7th, 2012 at 9:06PM
Thanks, Mark. It is a bit of a clash. On the other hand, I’ve been dancing to that YouTube for the last week.
December 7th, 2012 at 9:08PM
Alan: You haven’t read Lucianne.com very much, I think. These are totally in the normal range.
December 7th, 2012 at 9:08PM
UD: Fair enough. Sigh.
December 7th, 2012 at 9:59PM
Oh please. Have you ever read the comments on any WaPo article?
December 7th, 2012 at 10:10PM
Shane: Did I say those weren’t nutty?
December 8th, 2012 at 11:38AM
Oh I’m sure you make a point of how nutty WaPo and NYT and HuffPo and CNN and CBS and ABC commenters are all the time. I must miss those comments, somehow.
December 8th, 2012 at 12:31PM
Shane –
Taking your comments here at UD in their totality I cannot help but think you’re a shrill critter, the type people avoid at cocktail parties. I mean, Jesus – is your argument really that one cannot comment on anything negatively without taking into account the totality of all things in that same vein that are also potentially negative? That’s really dumb. I won’t even go into the false equivalence. It’s the Christmas season. Maybe try being pleasant? The beleaguered conservative schtick gets really, really old.
dcat
December 8th, 2012 at 1:00PM
Oh, I don’t know, “Derek”, my dogs seem to like me well enough. I think we can both be thankful we don’t attend the same cocktail parties. Merry Christmas!
December 8th, 2012 at 4:02PM
No need for scare quotations around my actual name.
Deck the halls, and all that.
Dcat
December 9th, 2012 at 11:29AM
“unless we want to be the sort of people who issue fatwas in response to verbal attacks”
I don’t think this is a good analogy. Declining to honor someone with a concern venue, or especially with Presidential attendance at said concert, is not equivalent to issuing a demand that that someone be killed or mutilated.
If someone wrote & sang a rap song proposing that all English majors be tortured to death..in a serious rather than a comedic tone…would you want to attend his concert? Wouldn’t it be a little disrespectful to your students to do so?
Similarly, I would think it extremely disrespectful toward U.S. military people, whose commander-in-chief Barack Obama of course is, to attend this guy’s concert.
December 9th, 2012 at 12:42PM
The WaPo has had a good series of articles on he Psy controversy (e.g., http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/heat-is-on-south-korean-rapper-psy-for-anti-american-rap/2012/12/07/56e319d4-40bd-11e2-ae43-cf491b837f7b_story.html?tid=pm_pop) (stay away from the comments!)
They rightly point out just how divisive US relations are to South Koreans. I’ve seen this reflected, anecdotally, in the many South Koreans I’ve met, usually in a scientific context. They tend to be either very strongly pro US or the opposite, very little ambivalence. Perhaps not surprisingly those who were here even semi-permanently (post docs) had the most favorable opinion of the US. It may just be obvious then to say that perhaps that’s what’s at work here: it’s perfectly respectable to hold virulently anti-American views in South Korea, but if you are chasing opportunity or just the almighty buck in the US, your tune is going I have to change. Pardon the pun.
December 9th, 2012 at 1:17PM
Shane: I think that’s a reasonable reading of the situation. I’d add to that the fact that internally as well South Korea is very much about (or has been until pretty recently) fierce anti-government rhetoric/action. It’s a loud, pretty no-holds-barred protest culture.