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 24th, 2016 at 11:50AM
It is shameful. And preying on the hopes and fears of the most vulnerable. Shameful as Trump U.
They should all be tarred & feathered for these dirty deeds.
August 24th, 2016 at 11:52AM
This one really bothered me, too. Won’t change my vote, but ugh.
August 24th, 2016 at 12:08PM
It’s classically amoral… they do it because they can.
August 24th, 2016 at 2:21PM
To be fair here, this is who they are. You might as well blame the ants swarming the potato chips at a picnic–it’s just what they do, and we all know that. Bonnie and Clyde have been at it for 30+ years and that is not going to change. A Hillary presidency will culminate (not necessarily end) with an impeachment over past and future misdeeds. Special prosecutors, The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, obstruction of justice, the War Against Women, perjury upon perjury…we know how this song is going to go on both sides of the choir.
August 24th, 2016 at 2:26PM
I accept that ants are amoral.
August 24th, 2016 at 4:29PM
Where there is government activity, there is rent-seeking, and where there is rent-seeking, there will be scummy tax-syphons. Love the term, and appropriated it for future use.
August 24th, 2016 at 4:42PM
The election still looks like Hillary’s to me, barring some surprise package.
Quick question: I recall one thread of feminist thought used to be something like allowing women in non-traditional vocations, such as politics, would bring fresh talents and even better outcomes than if menfolk alone were calling the shots. The argument was not unpersuasive to me. How does Hillary fill the bill?
August 25th, 2016 at 10:52AM
One of the main arguments the suffragists used was that allowing women into politics as voters would bring greater morality to politics and would help end activities such as war.