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
March 8th, 2013 at 11:29PM
I can’t believe that after four posts on this guy you still haven’t used the heading Frampton Comes Alive!
March 9th, 2013 at 12:08AM
Alan: Yikes – I assume I should be embarrassed about this, but — I don’t know the phrase.
March 9th, 2013 at 9:33AM
Peter Frampton was a British rocker. He started first in a group and then went solo. He had an enormous best seller (it sold for years, not months) that was contained on two albums, if I recall correctly. The title was Frampton Comes Alive! I also wondered why you didn’t use the title.
March 9th, 2013 at 10:04AM
Van: Thanks!
March 9th, 2013 at 11:36AM
Van, Humble Pie was the group. We’d derisively pronounce his name Framp-tune.
March 10th, 2013 at 2:38PM
Humble Pie! Don’t know why I drew a blank on the name. I should have mentioned that the Alive! in the title comes from the fact the album was a live album and was considered one of the better live recordings up to that time.
March 11th, 2013 at 4:04PM
I meant to comment on this earlier, but this is really a spectacular piece of personal takedown. The author really nailed the comic timing w/ all of Frampton’s “top one percent” achievements, culminating in his confidence that he will be found to be the one percent of drug smugglers who are not guilty.
March 11th, 2013 at 8:05PM
Rita: Yes, it’s just a matter of making the Argentines understand that his extensive and detailed text messages about smuggling the drugs were a joke.
March 11th, 2013 at 8:41PM
It can be so tedious to deal with the 99 percent of unfunny people when you happen to be gifted with a one percent sense of humor.