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 3rd, 2016 at 10:48PM
In addition to all the comments on his egregious narcissism, his scattered, hyperkinetic thought process makes one wonder about adult ADHD.
August 4th, 2016 at 8:40AM
could just be an asshole, sadly for your purposes here the “test” for these disorders/criteria is more about how it effects the life of the person being evaluated than how it effects the people around them at least for adults, and as far as I know you can’t be found incompetent for a personality disorder yet, if yer a successful manipulator of people in a society that rewards such than you are normal…
August 4th, 2016 at 9:06AM
dmf: Yes. Recall the “article in CFA Magazine by Sherree DeCovney claiming that 10 percent (at least) of the people in the financial services industry are psychopaths.”
August 4th, 2016 at 9:45AM
yeah tho those kinds of stats strike me as of a genre with those that report all the people worn out by our dying economy/nation-state as being mentally-ill/depressed/etc, the sad truth is that many able bodied folks are easily bent/socialized into these kinds of behaviors, for some context see Robert Sapolsky’s work on top-primate stress in our near cousins. All too easy to conflate social “ills” with actual disorders.
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/masha-gessen-problem-with-media.html
August 4th, 2016 at 10:45AM
apples, trees…
https://bobbiblogger.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/trump.jpg
August 4th, 2016 at 11:22AM
Ugh.
August 4th, 2016 at 4:36PM
Back in the 1980s, a local sheriff refused to execute foreclosure orders. The government’s attorney publicly mentioned referring the sheriff for a psychiatric eval. Not long after, the sheriff successfully defended himself against public racketeering charges. Then sheriff and later Congressman James Traficant enjoyed a, er, ah, colorful career.
My point? Trump is an extremely shrewd sumbitch who learns. I’d expect to see him play the victim card, portraying himself as the people’s voice being whomped on by K street and Wall Street wire-pullers.
August 4th, 2016 at 4:44PM
JackOH: Traficant! There’s a name that takes me back.
August 4th, 2016 at 6:01PM
Jimbo had good points. He was convicted of taking a bribe (among other charges) from the very same Mr. Big who now disports himself as chair of our Podunk Tech-affiliated foundation. I wish I were making this stuff up:):)
August 5th, 2016 at 1:37AM
You know UD, questioning the effectiveness of the DNSM is a symptom of mental disease, as is the use of ellipses at the end of sentences…
August 5th, 2016 at 7:10AM
Uh oh…
August 5th, 2016 at 11:07AM
http://www.theonion.com/article/dsm-5-updated-accommodate-man-who-legitimately-bei-53401
August 5th, 2016 at 11:16AM
Big Pharma can help. Voice-over: “Shkrelium is not for everybody. Talk to your doctor before taking Shkrelium. Side effects include a big gaping hole where your brain used to be.” (Cue Beavis and Butthead snicker.)
August 5th, 2016 at 12:24PM
Jack, the best are the cialis commercials, the ones where everyone ends up nude in an outdoor bathtub. One of them had a black couple. I’m from San Francisco. I KNOW that no Bay Area brother is gonna end up naked, sitting in a bathtub on a hill overlooking the Embarcadero Freeway. He’d give up sex prior to that. Hell, I’d give up sex if that crap made that insane….
August 5th, 2016 at 2:16PM
Profane: efforts to appease the moon… Why had I never seen this before? Thank you for the link!
August 5th, 2016 at 7:46PM
Charlie-LOL. I see those ads. Dude’s in good physical trim, lives upmarket in a decent ‘hood, and his wife’s out of a Bond movie. This guy’s gotta problem? Okay, blood flow, right. Maybe we can medicalize adolescent energies, too, into the right channels. Wait, we already do that. Ivan Illich has a good take on the medicalization of everything in “Medical Nemesis”, if you can find a copy.
August 5th, 2016 at 9:50PM
Do they have a drug to cure typos? I need me some of that….