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 23rd, 2016 at 9:55AM
Lucky you!! Though I suspect your luck will pause for a few hours with the train wi-fy.
We’ve been planning to go to Boston soon largely to see art and the city where we just missed each other, living across an alley, a few years before our orbits brought us together.
From older posts I remember, you’ll be in the hands of a capable art historian in-law.
Still, let me recommend two things which you might or might not know about and have considered. Max Beckmann, Self Portrait in a Black Tuxedo at Harvard’s Busch-Reisinger Museum is terrific. This Youtube by Professor Joseph Koerner, is really good but –warning — involves 20’s and 30’s German themes that have an unfortunate resonance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH6rqjpDHT8
The portrait was not in the recent Met Beckmann show. Beckmann follows next, or nearly next after Rembrandt, in the number of self portraits. Which brings me to the next item.I’m sure you’ve see the BFA’s Rembrandt’s Portrait of An Artist in His Studio. But let me recommend pages 14 to about 17 or so of Simon Schama’s great Rembrandt’s Eyes in which he goes through parts of the painting in a characteristically enchanting way. If it is easy to read those pages in bookstore before seeing the painting, it might be worth it.
Finally I know you know Boit’s daughters in the BFA. One of my very favorite paintings. But just a side note. A while back, on an intuition, I checked to see if others saw connections to Las Meninas. Yep, the Prado once flew the girls over to Madrid so that they could hang out with the Infanta, the reflection of her parents,her entourage, and DV.
Safe travels.
December 23rd, 2016 at 10:22AM
And here is the Prado’s description of their 2010 show in which the two paintings hung side by side:
https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/new/sargent-returns-to-the-prado/0dbd137f-1a11-4588-bbff-702bb521042a
December 23rd, 2016 at 2:36PM
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n24/frederick-seidel/in-late-december