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 24th, 2014 at 5:27PM
I applied for the War College when I was in the Army Reserve but didn’t get accepted. I guess I wasn’t a good enough cheater?
July 24th, 2014 at 5:29PM
JND: Your cheating lacked leadership qualities.
July 24th, 2014 at 7:08PM
This was even stupider because the Army War College puts student papers produced in its programs in an online archive (well, at least some of them; I’m pretty sure M.A. theses would be part of the program). I’ve noticed this because my writing-in-the-disciplines students in certain majors have a tendency to come up with them as potential sources. And I can say from helping multiple students look over these possible sources that the quality is, um, uneven to questionable (maybe military education doesn’t encourage originality, but most, even if they aren’t plagiarized, could be kindly described as syntheses of readily-available — as in available in the NYT — ideas, without much in the way of critical thinking, or original content. Not what I’d call M.A.-level, or even advanced-undergrad-level, work).
July 25th, 2014 at 6:34AM
contingent cassandra, thanks for saying what I was too scared to say. I read the links. Walsh’s thesis looked to me like Big Ideas Lite. Very Lite.
July 25th, 2014 at 7:27AM
Ad misericordiam.
July 25th, 2014 at 8:50AM
FWIW-my military days are way behind me, but the late Col. David Hackworth was a strong critic of careerist “ticket-punching” (his term) within the Army. Example from Vietnam: artillery officers were promoted based on ordnance expended. Expend it they did, even without a military objective.
I’m not sure the NVA or Viet Cong archives are available, but one can imagine intelligence reports noting the bombardment of areas not occupied by NVA troops.