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
March 4th, 2014 at 4:57PM
Do you have any theories about why it’s almost all philosophy profs in these cases? NU, Colorado, Miami?
March 4th, 2014 at 6:41PM
Rita: I’ve certainly wondered about this. There’s the dork theory – philosophy professors – male ones – are predominantly dorks who never expected to score – but because they’re professors they do score, or they think they’re picking up messages that they can try to score, with their impressed students… But at bottom they’re still dorks, so they go about things really stupidly, thus outraging rather than intriguing these same students…?
March 4th, 2014 at 11:35PM
Aren’t all professors dorks though? If dorkdom were the key, I’d expect to hear about scores of sexually harassing physicists before I heard about philosophers. Something about especially the McGinn case suggests that these aren’t timid, cue-misinterpreting bumblers, but men who firmly believe they deserve to score and to have their pick while they’re at it.
March 5th, 2014 at 11:10AM
A colleague from Physics noted, in some seriousness, that he could judge the quality of a physics department by how few doors he’d have to knock on before he could form a string quartet. Might not be a bad strategy for meeting ladies, either.
March 6th, 2014 at 8:19PM
Wittgenstein was a dork, but then he was Wittgenstein. John Rawls, my teacher, was a great philosopher and, based on my somewhat limited evidence, an exceptionally sweet man. I know one very serious, rather big time, academic philosopher, also a sweet “family man,” a mensch and anything but a dork. One wonders how exposure to moral philosophy — all academic philosophers are so exposed — would not normally act as at least something of a brake on this sort of harassment. Can the anosmic credibly teach the aesthetics of perfumes?
Generalizations about any groups, defined in ways not dependent on the harm that they cause (e.g. domestic abusers etc.) — excepting Republicans* (it wasn’t always completely so) — are, for me, subject to a very heavy burden of proof of correlation with bad traits.
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*Ok maybe today’s Republicans — once one identifies the common agenda items — are essentially, if indirectly, defined by the harm that they are almost certain to cause.
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By the (very circuitous) way, and as for physicists, here’s a whole department of apparently lovely people, guys and gals, I think would be terrific colleagues and mentors. For those relatively innocent of physics (like me) these videos are informative and great fun:
http://www.sixtysymbols.com