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 22nd, 2013 at 9:01PM
If a woman was to visit Saudi Arabia, and go into public without face coverings and certain attire, she would be arrested or possibly beaten. That would be in effect even if she wasn’t Muslim. This is because of some cultural/religious edict in effect in SA and other fundamentalist nations, and women have no right to question or challenge that law.
If a secular nation then says that no one will be allowed to use the face covering because it underscores female repression, then it seems it again takes away a woman’s right to decide what she wants to do. I guess some women feel that this kind of attire is the proper thing to do.
The best argument is the one that makes the most common sense. You can’t run around with a sheet and then claim you can’t take it off because that would violate some fucking religious edict, because we live in places where people need to be identified in order to conduct business. You want to cash a check, you need to be identified. You jaywalk in front of a bus, you need to be identified and ticketed. You attend a secular public school, you need to be identified. Sorry, thems the rules, sort of like them rules back wherever it is you come from….
September 23rd, 2013 at 8:43AM
You don’t have to go to Europe to see burquas and niquabs; just head over to Tysons Corner Mall (the high-end one off Chain Bridge Road) and you will see a fine selection of them. Their wearers are invariably accompanied by men wearing short-sleeve shirts and arrogant expressions.
Charlie: “I guess some women feel that this kind of attire is the proper thing to do.” I’m sure some do. Others fear physical violence from their husbands or brothers should they do otherwise. Still others may have no need to fear physical violence, but fear social ostracism within their families or communities.
Being pretty much a free-speech absolutist, I find this a difficult issue.
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