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 8th, 2017 at 11:24AM
UD, your horses and your crosses got a bit jumbled towards the end there – easy to do, I guess in the heat of the alliterative moment. For the next in the series I offer Crusading Chaste Charismatic Chosen Celestial Consecrated Calvary Christian School.
August 8th, 2017 at 11:33AM
adam: Crusading. Crusading is great. I didn’t think of that.
August 8th, 2017 at 12:59PM
It fits with your cavalry turn of phrase 🙂
August 9th, 2017 at 11:36AM
UD, as a literature professor, surely you appreciate that just as characters like Odysseus gain power and charisma by traveling–the further and the more exotic the place is, the better–in certain Christian circles, people gain power by sinning and repenting and witnessing.
August 9th, 2017 at 12:03PM
tp: Absolutely. I don’t expect any Christians to impede this pilgrim’s progress.
August 9th, 2017 at 12:13PM
The saddest part is yet to come — the pending redemption narrative. Just watch — he’ll win some Christian Conference/State title, we’ll hear about what a molder of young men into servants of Christ he is, and at some point some DI school with Christian proclivities will come calling. he may never get back to the highest ranks of DI, certainly at the secular level, but don’t you believe for one second that Liberty or some other Christian Chop Shop won’t come calling. And so it is written.
August 9th, 2017 at 1:29PM
dcat: Yup.