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 28th, 2015 at 6:58PM
Not a gun owner, I’m okay with a generous interpretation of the Second Amendment. My Mom once defended herself against a career criminal with a crummy .22 caliber revolver she’d bought mail-order pre-GCA.
As far as I know, gun enthusiasts–and I’m no expert–are pretty much okay with strong penalties for wrongful conduct with a firearm. Most gun enthusiasts–I think–know that the moment you produce a firearm in a confrontation, you’d better hope you’re within the law.
March 28th, 2015 at 7:31PM
Jack/OH: Yes, everyone’s fine with harsh penalties. So what?
March 28th, 2015 at 7:38PM
So, it would devastate Panama City if they got rid of spring break drinking. Well, any business premised on debauchery, rape, hyper violence, the huge waste of public resources needed to clean up after the little darlings, all paid for with increasing amounts of debt, should be shut down as soon as possible. Oh, wait….
March 28th, 2015 at 10:46PM
Maybe what Panama City and other gun rights advocates should recognize is that easy access to guns means far more suicides, and accidental deaths and injuries. These far outweigh any crime prevention effects (which are questionable at best).
March 28th, 2015 at 10:59PM
Anon: Yes.
The spring break gun situation in PCB has truly gotten out of hand. The PCB police chief has made it clear in various comments that his force is afraid for their lives because spring break brings large numbers of gun-wielding cop-hating career criminals to town. He has also said that no increase in police personnel – however large – would be enough to protect people from this influx.
March 29th, 2015 at 7:49AM
just sort of a micro version of the larger unfolding disasters like global warming, the very cognitive-biases that got the species thru the previous generations are now our undoing, too bad we are going to take out so much of the biosphere with us…
March 31st, 2015 at 5:41AM
Anon, UD: Those “gun-wielding, cop-hating career criminals” need to check with their P. O.’s. They’re already in violation of law by mere possession of a firearm.