Humor means we’re getting over it. Good.
Humor means we’re getting over it. Good.
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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
February 19th, 2019 at 9:09AM
The now and future trajectory of this story:
1) Jussie was lynched by MAGA AmeriKKKan racists and homophobes. Orange Man Bad!
2) Jussie was so traumatized by PTSD (Pathological Trump Stress Disorder) that his disease forced him to do this. Orange Man Bad! (this is the emerging narrative of our local liberal community)
3) Jussie is a brave member of The Resistance who committed an act of civil disobedience to highlight the fact that even if MAGA racist homophobes are not stalking the streets of Chicago at 2 AM in frigid weather looking for affluent gay POCs to beat up, somewhere in Trump’s Amerikkka, they are. Orange Man Bad!
4) This is old news, so let’s get back to proving that Julie Swetnick was indeed assaulted by Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge, and Clarence Thomas sometime between 1975-1990 some place between Miami and Boston. Orange Man Bad!
February 19th, 2019 at 9:20AM
I hear you, tp, but I’m gonna bet you’re wrong. Already in the wee hours of this event plenty of high profile civil rights people were skeptical and saying that he should have the book thrown at him if he did it. You’re describing a fringe element.
February 19th, 2019 at 12:36PM
It’s no longer journalism, it’s theatre. Low grade and cheaply made, as well. Reality programming created the model in that contrived nonsense can be deemed genuine, and it cost so very little to manufacture. CNN trots out talking heads to parse the words of political actors, and pays them nothing to fill the screen time. If networks no longer get the same amount of ad revenue as a decade ago, then production costs must be cut. Wall building, porn queens bedding rich guys, celebrity miscues, become news worthy due to the fact they require a minimum of resources to produce….
February 19th, 2019 at 12:47PM
The impeccably liberal Mrs. TP is already at Stage 4. Admittedly, as Reagan used to say, she’s so far left she’s left America.