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
September 29th, 2017 at 10:10AM
Unlikely that you’d be able to buy any books at Amazon headquarters, any more than you could buy Craftsman tools at the Sears Tower, back when it was the Sears Tower and there were Craftsman tools.
The books, or whatever else les UDs are buying, will likely come from a warehouse in Wisconsin. Or perhaps be stocked at Whole Foods.
September 29th, 2017 at 10:25AM
Stephen: I had just that thought right after I finished the post. Of course you’re right.
October 1st, 2017 at 11:47AM
And yet, your neighborhood might be a likely future site for this office, as it has convenient access both to rapid transit and to Rent Seeker Central on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
Chicago apparently has a bid, but reusing the old Main Post Office? (Now, if Amazon’s logistics system included parcels loaded onto baggage cars attached to trains, that might work as a warehouse.)
And there are people in Milwaukee putting a proposal together. I think their argument is “it’s not in Illinois.”
October 1st, 2017 at 2:49PM
Stephen: Yes – though I’ve already heard people complain that the TWO metro stations within a 12 or so minute walk “aren’t close enough.” (And of course the MARC train is a short walk through… Garrett Park.)
Still — there are many, many attractive features here. Tons of restaurants and cool new places. . Almost all of the stores are targeted at bourgeois bohemians, and there’s a very nice hotel/conference center just down the street.
We like our one-level well-located house a lot, and we figure we won’t move out of it… But seriously, if Amazon moves in and makes our house value go through the roof, we might sell it and move to a little ocean-front place on the Delaware shore or something…