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
December 18th, 2015 at 8:44AM
Nice.
December 18th, 2015 at 11:02AM
In his book “Missionary Position,” Chris Hitchens destroys the myth of Mother Teresa. He does it by proving that Terry was a money grubbing weirdo who had a penchant for blood money. One of her major benefactors was Charles Keating, a staunch catholic businessman who was outstanding at defrauding senior citizens. Mommy received somewhere north of a million dollars in donations from catholic Charlie.
Law finally caught up with Keating, and he was tried and convicted. During the sentencing phase, Terry wrote an impassioned letter to the judge, describing Charlie’s charitable work and how much he had helped her serve India’s poor. The prosecutor shot back, stating that he didn’t remember Jesus accepting stolen money, and that if Terry really was truly a humble follower of JC, she should return the money. Neither acknowledgment nor funds ever appeared. If ‘living saints’ have a hard time parting with > $1 million, easy to understand why secular institutions have amorphous ethics when it comes to $$$ as well….
December 18th, 2015 at 1:02PM
I would think that what matters most is the use the money is put to, not who it came from.
December 19th, 2015 at 12:27PM
@John,Bondholders and Lincoln Savings and Loan depositors were suing Charlie at the same time he was giving their money to Mommy dearest. Mommy could have easily given the dinero back to those that could prove they had been grifted….