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 6th, 2016 at 7:14AM
glad to add to the mix, will be interesting to see if anyone can find out how much the Donald will be raking in from this campaign when all is said and done, the tragic thing is many of his supporters take things like how he is charging the campaign for services from his own companies as a sign of his genius/fitness, I guess that’s the logical end of so called public/private enterprises, too bad we will all end up like his good friend in Jersey that he stuck with that dying casino…
August 6th, 2016 at 9:49AM
Gotta give him debit.
While one should expect sharp practices from Trump. Democratic donation sites are often guilty of much lower level deceptive practices. The DCCC site (and I believe previously, but not currently, HRC’s) comes with the “make it monthly box checked.” I once ran afoul of this and ACt Blue made it right very quickly after my telephone inquiry. For fully competent people paying attention, there is that quick fix not available to DT’s dupes. But someone somewhat infirm, who decided to make a one shot splurge contribution, may simply not notice or have the wherewithal to make the phone call. It can be a disaster for them or at least terribly distressing. I wrote the DCCC about their fine print default, invoking our own Saint Elizabeth, patroness of consumers. Nada response. I now use Paypal when I can and am always careful. Threatening to withold contributions is a transparently empty threat during this political emergency. Please contribute to HRC and to down ballot candidates too. It would be great to have a Democratic President who is not totally stymied. Just take your time on the websites.
August 6th, 2016 at 9:59AM
dmf: From what I’m reading, people are fleeing his hotels and other enterprises. There’s just something about a man polling lower than David Duke among minorities…
August 6th, 2016 at 10:01AM
Greg: That’s all useful cautionary information, none of which I knew about. Thanks.
FWIW: The whole “recurring donation” thing, for whatever great cause, scares me. I’d never do it.
August 6th, 2016 at 10:28AM
UD, sadly real-estate wheeler and dealers are well served by denigrating, and discriminating against, minorities,
and not surprised that folks who have been already been taken in and are now seeing behind the facades are fleeing but unfortunately the press has been giving him free ad time to lure in many many new suckers, don’t forget that Jim Bakker is back on the scam pitching end-times survivalist propaganda. The real and largely unreported story in all this is the obscene powers that property developers in general have over our cities.
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/08/trump-real-estate-theft-public-land-taxes/
August 6th, 2016 at 11:15AM
Jim Bakker? Is back??
August 6th, 2016 at 1:17PM
in the leathery lifted flesh, need some apocalypse chow for yer bunker?
https://jimbakkershow.com/
August 6th, 2016 at 7:26PM
Coda
Just got home from dinner with my wife. Had two glasses of wine was relaxed. Got an email from Anne Kirkpatrick, McCain’s opponent. Had been thinking all day that, for example, Ryan and McCain put self hugely over country (although in McCan’s case it could be some form of senility). So I contributed $20 + 10% tip. Got thanked for a 12 month *recurring* contribution. Fixed it on line. But, fool me thrice, shame on me. And this just after I warned others this morning.
August 7th, 2016 at 9:59AM
Greg: Thanks for the reminder – so easy to tick the wrong box…
August 8th, 2016 at 9:40AM
Why, if you are a Democratic patronage employee in Mediocrevilleburgton (and there are plenty of them), you are required to donate to Duh Party as long as you care to be employed. 1.9% to 2.1% of pay is the minimum required, but exactly 2% is not allowed. This permits the pretend journalists at the local newspaper to deny that there is a “2% Club.”