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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
May 1st, 2019 at 5:14PM
What do you think will happen to these people? Martha Stewart is back to raking it in after a couple of years in stir and so on. The minions may do hard time but I can’t see the celebs suffering proportionately.
May 1st, 2019 at 6:15PM
Ravi: Here’s my prediction: Most will serve no jail time – community service, probation, financial penalties, but no slammer. Some will go to jail for a month or so; they will go someplace pleasant, surrounded by prestige people like Bernie Madoff. Some when they get out will already have a ghost-written confession ready to publish – every confession will take the same form, lamenting their appalling deprived youth which forced them to forego schooling in order to make money as an actor (variant: they were forced into the trade by an abusive stage parent).
As a result of this experience, they swore (visual: Scarlett O’Hara, ruins of Tara: “As God is my witness, I’ll never be hungry again!“) they would never inflict their own ignorance on their children (This approach only works with the ill-educated; among the naughties there are some quite well-educated people, and their only gambit is to plead life-destroying dread that their children would fail to reach their parents’ higher-ed attainments… or something… Not sure what they can do, really. Maybe some of them will be classy enough to say that they’re ashamed to admit their status-obsession led them to use any means necessary to get their kids into status schools.) The confessions will place much of the blame on L.A.’s sick money/celebrity culture which took an innocent and sucked her in, etc. Some confessions will announce a born-again conversion (all of them should, really, since experience shows this to be the cheapest and easiest route to reclaiming your name… keep an eye on Jussie Smollet in this connection).
The TV movie inspired by the most persuasive of the confession books (the one that offers the most lurid humiliations and life-destruction and therefore the most riveting redemption scene as, with her Modesto Junior College dorm room in the background, the confessor’s daughter embraces her mother: “It’s okay, Mom. I’m gonna start here. I’m gonna start doing the learning I should have done, right here and now. I’m gonna make you proud. I love you, Mom.”) will enjoy a respectable audience share.
May 1st, 2019 at 7:20PM
I never watched or read GWTW so I see a Rex ex ending as in ‘Tartuffe.’ A Singer underling gets carted off to Leavenworth and the rest pardoned by one of their own to return to their ways. Same result though.