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
November 10th, 2016 at 2:26PM
I realize that this is about tea and not Nozick. But for those who have not and are tempted to read him — I read two of his books in reading groups including a few professional philosophers. AUS is a disappointing question-begging book.He essentially starts with a barely concealed premise of strong entitlement to property and at the end essentially pulls it again out of the hat as if it were a surprise rabbit.
Philosophical Explanations is one of the most enjoyable and playful books I have ever read, tackling issues such as what does it mean to say that an object, e.g. a person, is the same one over time. His idea of the closest continuer is really interesting. And who would not love a book that explores — as I remember it — at least two versions of the
movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers. When he wasn’t being a libertarian ideologue he was great.
Enjoy the tea, And I hope everyone finds something to enjoy soon.
November 10th, 2016 at 8:45PM
Tea for two and two for tea,
What comes now for Hillary?
Picture her upon Bill’s knee,
Just tea for two, two for tea.
November 10th, 2016 at 10:19PM
In the right hands, the conversations and separate thoughts of the Clintons in their old age would — I suspect will — make a brilliant play.
November 10th, 2016 at 10:39PM
Their intelligence, their love for each other – which I am sure is real – maybe also some hatred on her part, certainly carloads of resentment, his, possibly her shame too, about some things, loads of pride and regrets for themselves and for the people they tried to serve, tied together also by love of child their and grand child. What a challenge to do this with poetic compression.
Shakespeare would find this a worthy subject — or these days Michael Frayn might do it well — I’m thinking of his “Democracy” about Willy Brandt.