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 17th, 2013 at 9:39AM
Ooooh! Oooh! A chance to overintellectualize! I’m very excited. I teach nihilism in my Russian history classes by having the kids read Turgenev’s _Fathers and Sons_. My students TOTALLY get Bazarov, the nihilist character, but they can’t stand him. They immediately see parallels to coffeehouse hipster types who insist that everything is meaningless and pointless, and they will NOT accept that world view.
So I don’t buy the Tea Partiers as nihilists. They DO fervently believe in the absolute and objective rightness of things: God, low taxes, the imminent danger of socialism. World-weary resignation and je m’en fichisme just isn’t their style.
October 17th, 2013 at 9:47AM
Dave: The Turgenev sounds exactly right: Ground zero for nihilism. I myself like the much more obscure character Armand Vedel in Gide’s The Counterfeiters.
I agree that nihilism isn’t quite right for the Tea Partiers. They are, I think, revolutionaries with nihilistic tendencies. That is, I think they are willing to go all the way to nihilistic behavior on behalf of their enthusiasms. This doesn’t make them nihilists, but it gets them, under certain circumstances, close.
October 17th, 2013 at 10:08AM
Freud’s death-drive(n) might be a better label/diagnosis, but really aren’t they just Protestant-social-darwinists, I don’t think that they understand themselves as gambling/monkey-wrenchers more as destined to rule on earth as in heaven…
http://www.npr.org/2013/10/16/234752747/meet-the-brothers-who-shaped-u-s-policy-inside-and-out
October 17th, 2013 at 12:21PM
Agree with Dave S…nihilism is a much better description of the garden-variety cynical hipster than it is of the Tea Partier.
The only way it would make sense to view the Tea Partiers as nihilists would be if one believed that meaning in life is to be found only via government, and that hence a belief in smaller / less-intrusive government makes life meaningless.
October 18th, 2013 at 7:21AM
The TPers suffer from the illusion that they don’t have a political philosophy, they’re just your ordinary commonsense neighbors who want to bring on the Apocalypse. As ever, what happens after the big A is unclear– but it will be terrific, you betcha.