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
January 20th, 2017 at 8:33AM
I pulled Joyce Rupp’s “Praying Our Goodbyes” off my bookshelf this morning, and plan to spend 10-15 minutes at noon time praying for my country. Oh, and knitting – because making opposes destruction.
January 20th, 2017 at 9:28AM
Elizabeth: I don’t know the Rupp book – I’ll look it up. The main thing here is that after turning on the radio with breakfast I’ve decided turning on the radio for the rest of the day is a no-no.
January 20th, 2017 at 3:58PM
No evening news for a long time. Trump talk on a rheostat in friends control — if they need to talk about it I’ll help them –when they come to visit.
At this point, I’d be happy to settle for a four year clown soufflé with theft sauce. Hope that’s it.
Perhaps I’ll try knitting. You might try hypnotherapy tapes at night. Not woks of genius or profundity, something like good physical therapy, but for the brain, and through it, the body. Try these if you are stressed, particularly at night:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jciE4nNAOLw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLF8MswWO0c
January 20th, 2017 at 6:10PM
Greg: Amazingly, back in grad school, I worked for one of the most eminent hypnotherapists, Erika Fromm.
I used to hear her sessions with patients through the very thin wall that separated us. (I was her admin ass’t while I was at U Chicago.)
During a visit to her apartment once, I spied a piece of paper on which she’d written comments about me after my job interview with her. What stood out was this one:
Of course I loved this and have – during various battles of will with Mr. UD – shouted it out by way of reminder. “V STRONG EGO!”
January 20th, 2017 at 7:31PM
That’s a major honor. An interesting tactic in the inevitable gentle spouse-wars. But after what I assume are all of those years (in my case it would be 43 very good ones), is that really a necessary reminder?
Then, to take vast digressive liberties, there are two beautiful Poussin paintings — even for those who don’t much like Nick P. — Et in Arcadia Ego, discussed famously by Panofsky.
http://www.parnasse.com/etpnt.htm
Then two wise guys did a web thing on that and toaster waffles: Leggo my Et in Arcadia Ego.
I’ve always (well not quite always) wanted occasion to interject: “cogito ergo sumo.” But I wrestle with its letter-imperfections..
Anyway that’s five more minutes diverted from today’s events.