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 28th, 2017 at 8:39AM
Will this be the one occasion in history in which Southern Baptists are against the death penalty?
January 28th, 2017 at 9:02AM
Unfortunately, I’m not sure Baylor’s behavior is actually all that hypocritical. I don’t wish to paint with too broad a brush, but there is a strain in some elements of Christian conservatism that very much buys into the Madonna/whore dichotomy. After all, until recently, this university was led by a man who gratuitously humiliated a young woman, Monica Lewinsky, in support of his self-righteous crusade against a certain bawdy ex-president. (Say what you will about the investigation, but there was no need to include, for example, the cigar story in the final report; it added nothing probative to the case. Rather, it was inserted, as it were, to embarrass and delegitimize Bill Clinton. I doubt Starr even cared how these unnecessary revelations would scar Lewinsky. After all, what kind of woman would expose her thong to a man 20 years her senior?) I could certainly see many of Baylor’s supporters thinking, “No Good Girls were harmed in this story.” Now, I am not suggesting that they’re ok with gang rape. But I think many of them were comfortable with the idea that, given how much was at stake (football glory), there was nothing wrong with letting a flock of loose women service their recruits and star athletes. And that attitude created a sense of entitlement that convinced certain violent and morally deficient players that any woman who somehow fell into the orbit of the athletic program was theirs for the taking. I’m sure many people at Baylor are just as horrified about all of this as we are. But more than a few of the obnoxiously self-righteous have probably gone soul-searching and come up empty.
January 28th, 2017 at 9:53AM
TAFKAU: Ain’t it the truth.
You can see how Baylor appears to have believed that it had a system of tacitly sanctioned rape and prostitution under spiritual as well as legal control.
As you suggest, in the context of its internal moral code, there was no hypocrisy involved, since it’s our duty to condemn loose women who tempt lustful men (much of the world deals with this problem by sticking women under burqas). In the eyes of the larger ungodly society, however, it does seem a bit… questionable.
January 29th, 2017 at 12:52PM
baylor opened a 266 million dollar football stadium a few years ago. it’ll be decades before the bonds are paid. if the football team gets the way overdue death penalty, then it’ll probably crush the academic side, as well. so what’s a few rapes when you’ve got debt to service…..