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
August 1st, 2014 at 12:33PM
Framing this as a matter of needs was a poor choice on the reporter’s part.
Better to think of it in terms of competing rights. The right of one person to carry a firearm in public isn’t the only right at stake here. There’s also the right of a much larger number of people not to have their safety placed in unnecessary jeopardy by the reckless behavior of one of their fellow citizens.
Given that there is absolutely no compelling reason to carry a loaded semi-automatic rifle into a secure public space like an airport other than “because I feel like doing it,” it’s simply a matter of justice that on this occasion the safety rights of the majority should have precedence.
August 1st, 2014 at 1:09PM
AA, no need good god man one never knows when a muslim sleeper cell agent or the ATF might come gunning for us, to be fair to the reporter this is a pretty novel twist on the red-scare tactics these loons usually employ.
August 1st, 2014 at 5:58PM
Prof. Steinmetz’s improper handling of his rifle led to his arrest. My understanding is that open carry was lawful in that part of the airport. At his local range, the same improper conduct may have led to a scolding, repeated instances to being barred.
Free advice to anti-gun folks. No snark, no ‘tude. Make your case. You’re selling Americans a new homicide rate, a new overall violent crime rate, and a new property crime rate. What are those new rates? You want to repeal the Second Amendment, confiscate guns through the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause, and prohibit any subsequent ownership by statute or amendment. How will you make the necessary arguments?
By temperament and education, I’m willing to listen to arguments that seem fresh and persuasive.
(BTW-I’m not a gun owner, although thirty years ago I was. About two months ago I thwarted a possible home invasion with a knife in hand and very serious talking through my front door. I thought about buying a handgun, but decided I wasn’t motivated enough to become a proficient shooter.)
August 1st, 2014 at 8:27PM
I will start taking Second Amendment zealots more seriously when they begin lobbying for the dissolution of the large standing army that that well-regulated militia was supposed to make unnecessary.
August 2nd, 2014 at 9:41AM
What I was getting at, Allan, is that the quality of the anti-gun lobby needs to get better if it wants to play honest ball. In the last ten days or so, I’ve read on one anti-gun blog that individual gun ownership conduces to anarchy, and on another, totalitarianism.
If, indeed, a standing army constructively vacates the Second Amendment, then that argument ought to be made, and we’ll all likely be better off for having it well made.
August 3rd, 2014 at 12:54AM
Well Alan, there’s no need to wait for the 2d Amendments “zealots” to lobby for the dissolution of a large standing army. The dissolving has been going on for some time now. Why do you think that of all the people who could have been appointed Secretary of Defense, our President appointed Chuck Hagel? So now you can start taking the Second Amendment seriously.
August 3rd, 2014 at 3:19AM
This may be nitpicking, but there is something called private property. The businesses at a public entity, such as an airport, pay rent for their retail space. Therefore, as long as the checks clear, the area belongs to them, they can ask anyone to leave, even those customers who are too stupid to not realize that property rights trumps the ability to bring a gun onto that property. For all the prattling about Marxism, Pete Steinmetz is the one who is doing more to get rid of the notion of private property than any commissar….