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
November 5th, 2013 at 12:08AM
The same football “culture” that sired Icognito also sired Ray Lewis, a linebacker that was implicated in a 2000 murder at a night club, Aaron Hernandez, who not only is charged with a recent murder, but was implicated in possible homicides while at U of Florida, Mike Vick, he of dog killing infamy, Jovan Belcher, a Kansas City Chief’s linebacker, who shot his girlfriend to death and later committed suicide at the football stadium. That is only what comes to mind, too many to list incidents of wife beatings, negligent homicides, domestic abuse are readily available.
Leaving Belcher aside, Vick, Hernandez and Lewis were allowed to continue playing. Keep in mind that the NFL has its own investigative capacity to determine the character of their players and prospective draftees. They team owners know what kind of people they hire. They want psychopaths, because they make very good football players. Carefully crafted PR maintains the lie that the players are of high quality, willing at a moments notice to help build a playground, or do some other community charity.
But Icognito did the unthinkable, he called one of his teammates a ‘n***r,” and threatened to beat that player’s mother. And was stupid enough to leave audio evidence of his depravity. The NFL can spin away murder and wife beating, they can’t racism and mother beating. That’s the reason that Icognito is gone, not because he’s a degenerate idiot, but because he left readily available evidence that he a degenerate idiot. If he had said it in the locker room, no problem. The result won’t be to clean up the league, it will be to make sure you don’t do your bullshit on the phone. And the owners want more public subsidies, which the public seems to have no problem giving….
November 5th, 2013 at 11:53AM
Richie Incognito sounds like a Dick Tracy villain.