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
September 13th, 2013 at 8:54AM
I must have missed the boat to the Land of Pastiche Appreciation. But then, truthfully, I even like narrative– so… poor unmodern me.
September 13th, 2013 at 1:25PM
The whole ethos of the present time, to judge by what I saw in the early 2000s (just before retiring from academic life) is that no one should ever be held responsible for anything they say or write. Always it was meant as irony, or satire, or a j/k [joke], or everyone else does it, or . . . ad libitum, ad infinitum. The underlying theme is always, no blame, no shame, no guilt . . . such old-fashioned, “modern” notions they are, utterly unsuited to a post-modern age!
This goes hand-in-hand with what the young women are calling the rise of the man-child, or of Peter Pans (“I *won’t* grow up . . .”!), as they wonder where all the suitable men have gone.
September 13th, 2013 at 2:16PM
Here is my take, with apologies to Banjo Patterson (The Man From Snowy River). It helps to know the Hunter River flows through Newcastle, where this chap lived, and that Uni is the Australian vernacular diminutive for University.
THE POET FROM HUNTER RIVER
There was movement at the Uni, for the word had passed around
That the bloke from Hunter River had been outed,
And that he was now in hiding – out of sight and gone to ground,
Just because of silly rules he flouted.
All the experts and the pundits came from Uni’s near and far,
They mustered to defend their precious trade,
For these poets love hard writing where the poetry prizes are
Even if they “borrow” lines to make the grade.