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
June 8th, 2018 at 10:15PM
brutal, and I hope a bit of warning about celebrating serious drinking as somehow macho/cool.
June 9th, 2018 at 12:44AM
dmf: Yes. Something of Hemingway to his story – and also of course something of the Graham Greene story…
June 9th, 2018 at 1:54PM
in a cable/reality-show sort of way, sorry for his daughter hope the tabloids leave her alone.
June 12th, 2018 at 12:47PM
I recall a poem from high school, introduced a man who supposedly had everything (at least from the perspective of the narrator, one of the plainer folks in the community), I think the man was named Richard Corry, and at the end, the plainer folks were dealing with the adversities of the day and Richard Corry put a bullet through his head.
I don’t recall where the ensuing discussion went, but there had to be something of the “I’d trade my problems for his” in it. Likewise, there have to be people leading their quietly desperate lives being willing to swap their problems with Anthony Bourdain, or Kate Spade.
June 12th, 2018 at 3:41PM
Yup. That was Edward Arlington Robinson’s “Richard Cory.”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44982/richard-cory
Paul Simon put a version of it to music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAGKpoVFbmw
June 12th, 2018 at 10:53PM
Margaret, thanks for that link, I also tracked down some commentary on the poem, a lot of it suggests it’s the common folk’s shyness about interacting with Richard Cory that led to his suicide. That probably didn’t come up in discussion in high school, although that might be relevant whenever a high profile person exits that way.