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
February 14th, 2014 at 5:45PM
It’s not quite as mad as it seems: in 1867 Disraeli proposed what he called Fancy Franchises to increase the votes of the wealthy and educated, and through much of the 19th century in Ireland a landowner could have as many as six votes in local elections. It was meant to reflect the idea that those who pay the bills should have more of a say in what those bills would be. Or, as Lord Salisbury put it (more or less), why should two bin men be able to outvote a Rothschild? We now know this is Very Bad, but I’ve never heard anyone quite say why.
February 14th, 2014 at 8:29PM
For me John Rawls, “A Theory of Justice,” among the other things that it is, is a recent and powerful statement of why. But, as in all else, if you don’t buy the premises, you don’t buy the conclusions. And, in moral theory, the premises always are ultimately based on intuition about what is right, however enriched intuition may be by experience.
February 14th, 2014 at 8:49PM
Yes – I’d say that for most people fairness – the effort to be fair – skews very much in the direction of people who have less, not more. And I’d say that this instinct is particularly sharp when “more” means – since we live in the world of Tom Perkins – millions and even billions more.
February 15th, 2014 at 12:22AM
On your bridge proposal, you do realize that median wealth of Americans is about $40,000, right?
February 15th, 2014 at 4:48AM
Universal suffrage is undoubtedly fair, but is it wise?
February 15th, 2014 at 12:23PM
Colin, the alternative to universal suffrage is that some groups of people get to decide that other groups of people don’t get to participate in selecting their leaders.* And it’s clear where that inevitably leads. So, yeah, it’s wise.
*Of course, to some extent, this already happens, e.g., in the case of ex-felons who have served their time.
As for Perkins, I yield to Mr. Dylan:
Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.