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
July 13th, 2014 at 5:21PM
I don’t have anything against Hillary or Bill. They’ve worked politics to their (eventual) personal advantage, their hides are Kevlar, and their shamelessness epic. Both seem to me puppets of their time and circumstances. Hillary’s reply to the Hobby Lobby abortifacient decision seemed to me almost supernaturally deft, as though she were programmed.
My personal feeling is that Hill’y is so hardened she really doesn’t understood why there’d be criticism of her quarter-million a pop Platitude Express Tour.
July 13th, 2014 at 7:38PM
Not to worry, we have been assured that it is all going to charity.
Which one? Why the Clinton Foundation of course.
If the UCLA and UNLV students and faculty want to see where their money is going, they are welcome to visit the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. Guided tours daily.
July 14th, 2014 at 5:47PM
Way back, I did some very minor, non-electoral, issue-oriented politicking on my own nickel. I was offered sex of various species (I declined); two corrupt public officials tried to get me indicted (they failed); I got a minor rough-up from a crooked cop (he failed); I was offered “jobs” that I understood as cover-up money (I declined). I thought I was being a do-gooder citizen.
Two questions, I guess. What kind of constituency is likely to be attracted by Candidate X’s practiced rhetoric? How vulnerable to a corruption of heart is Candidate X because of political brutalization?
Hillary may still be a great human being, but my personal feeling is she’s just too damaged.