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 27th, 2015 at 3:26PM
oh wait I used to have a Baptist cartoon tract that explained that phenomena something about papists and an Antichrist as memory serves, ah via google this is close enuff:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JnqoANepmEI/U3eR3Q9CVdI/AAAAAAAABCs/_CRLi7YsnHE/s1600/Horrible+news.gif
March 27th, 2015 at 6:06PM
Ahh, nice spot on the tract, dmf. One of the multitude produced by Jack Chick, purveyor of only the finest fundamentalist vitriol. His distinctively-styled, black-and-white (in the figurative and literal sense) cartoon tracts litter truck stop diner booths, gas station bathrooms, and free publication racks across the Bible Belt. He doesn’t much like Catholics, Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Wicans, gays, Freemasons, atheists, liberals, abortion, Harry Potter, rock and roll, and versions of the Bible other than the King James.
Like a character out of fiction, he’s been doing this since 1960 and has only given one public interview. The artwork is this amazingly kitschy ’70s aesthetic, and the lack of compassion for his fellow man is palpable. There are variations on each basic narrative aimed at different ethnic and generational demographics. It’s hard to wonder if the entire thing is a decades-long performance art piece when his best sellers include the anti-Vatican “The Death Cookie” and the anti-evolution “Movin’ on Up.”
His tracts are often mocked by hipsters and young progressives for their remarkable cheesiness, perhaps the finest example being his anti-roleplaying screed, “Dark Dungeons,” (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp), which was made into a low-budget film last year.
Wired Magazine, “A Fearmongering Anti-RPG Comic Gets the Film Adaptation It Deserves”
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/dark-dungeons-movie/
On a non-Chick, but evolution-related note, one of the more interesting cultural artifacts to emerge from the earliest wave of the 1970s culture wars was this recording made at Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church, featuring two little girls asserting to a Tin Pan Alley-type melody that “I’m no monkey.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85QylODsnK4
One of the stanzas goes:
“Although it’s so ridiculous
They’re teaching us now that it’s true.
The teachers that came from a monkey
Would be better off in a zoo.”
Ah, America, my home sweet home.
(You can tell my sub-field is post-1945 U.S. politics and culture.)
March 27th, 2015 at 6:10PM
Crimson05er: “I’m no monkey.” LOL.
March 27th, 2015 at 6:20PM
thanks for the background Crimson05er afraid I was one of those
gen-x collectors of kitsch but when you have done as much time living and working in the bible-belt as I (as campus-brat northeastern outside agitator) you laugh and cry.
March 27th, 2015 at 6:40PM
Interesting enough, I used to find these sorts of tracts tucked into odd crevices around Harvard Square establishments all the time. Almost made me feel like I was back home in Alabama, sitting in a Huddle House.
Perhaps you had an alter-ego, dmf, a sort of counterpart anti-campus brat southeastern agitator dedicated to plastering Massachusetts with the Gospel According to Chick.
March 27th, 2015 at 7:06PM
ha could be good, some grave earnestness to balance the scales.
I actually came to appreciate how illustrating these sorts of literalism brought home how many phenomenological-worlds people are dwelling in, I remember talking to a library assistant in Memphis about how her COGIC bishop needed armed guards (thank God for concealed weapons permits) to protect him as he was being stalked by a demon-possessed man and thinking that would make watching Harry Potter movies more like a documentary than not…
March 28th, 2015 at 12:46AM
The Chick tracts also inspired a couple of Pagan anti-tracts about 25 years ago. Here’s a link to one of them, which I think is quite clever:
http://www.treeleavesoracle.org/library/pathfinder-press/otherpeople.html