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
March 28th, 2018 at 10:15AM
Given that Stevens’ essential position is that the whole Constitution + Bill of Rights is a useless artifact of the 18th century, except for the parts he says are not, this is not exactly surprising. Of course, the parts that he says are not useless artifacts are themselves subject to becoming useless artifacts–we need to check back every 20 minutes or so, since formerly useful and eternally important artifacts can become less eternally artifacty and even useless at a moment’s notice, depending on which progressive nostrum Stevens has decided needs implementation. Even the law professors who agree with his decisions giggle at his claimed “originalist” approach.
Rather than repealing the 2nd Amendment, I think that America’s liberal political elites should aim to lessen the fears of the bitter clingers by giving up their own armed security. If Obama, Nancy, Chuck, Rahm, Bill de Bolshie, Bonnie and Clyde Clinton, et al. gave up their security (and perhaps tore down the fortification walls surrounding some of their residences), it would serve as a powerful example.
March 29th, 2018 at 1:57AM
Wow, TP, that’s an uncharacteristically puerile comment. So Democrats who believe that the overabundance of guns endangers public safety must either make themselves sitting ducks for assassination or reveal themselves as hypocrites? I don’t imagine you’d accept an argument so preposterous from one of your own students.
And Bill de Bolshie? Bonnie and Clyde Clinton? Pretty weak stuff…
March 29th, 2018 at 8:15AM
TAFKAU, our elites have been saying for years that all this fear of crime is grossly exaggerated. Strangely enough, they themselves do not appear to believe this, as evidenced by their gun-toting guards and their fortified residences. Our most fervent local gun-controllers either do not actually live in the city, or they live in the little golden enclaves populated by the leaders of our local oligarchy and their hipster kids, the places that the police still actually patrol and enforce the law in.