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 25th, 2019 at 11:56AM
about as believable as someone feeling “threatened” by a statue.
June 25th, 2019 at 1:29PM
Even less believable than that. I think I was probably spooked by some statues when I was younger.
June 25th, 2019 at 4:19PM
i hope that you outgrew that by college….
June 25th, 2019 at 5:05PM
Those Harvard idiots should be a lot more upset about student loans than Unctuous Harvey’s lawyer…
June 25th, 2019 at 6:23PM
john: I did!
June 26th, 2019 at 11:07AM
Sorry, can’t agree. Sullivan has undertaken a highly publicized role that is likely to involve putting a particular tendentious spin on the kinds of situations he must address as a dean – in effect, he’s put himself into a conflict of interest, or a least incurred a reasonable perception of such.
June 26th, 2019 at 11:56AM
What’s the difference between Sullivan representing Harvey, and Dershowitz representing Jeffery Epstein? Alan’s being sued for allegedly defaming one of his client’s victims. Is there a safety issue with Dershowitz, as well?
June 26th, 2019 at 1:35PM
andre
that reasoning would preclude any criminal lawyer from the job.
June 26th, 2019 at 4:14PM
Andre: I’d like to back up charlie’s point. Even as an emeritus professor, Dershowitz is a profoundly important, influential Harvard presence. Why doesn’t his defense of a woman who for years performed female genital mutilation on seven year old girls here in the United States make Harvard undergraduate and graduate women feel threatened by his high-profile presence there, or at least feel like protesting his continued high-profile participation in Harvard life? Why are they silent on this matter – to say nothing of the arguably worse than Weinstein Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Dershowitz is reportedly affiliated?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alan-dershowitz-sued-defamation-connected-epstein-sex-abuse-claims-n995271
And the latest on Dershowitz. As it typical, the article’s first word is Harvard.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article232012352.html
June 27th, 2019 at 2:44PM
I’m afraid FGM is not a thing anymore, UD. Twenty years ago here, we had faculty crusading against it–I mean, who could actually be for it?
Mum’s the word now, UD.
June 27th, 2019 at 3:20PM
tp: Well, when I finish shouting my head off – about littering – in the most prominent intersection of Mediocreburgton or whatever you call it, I shall proceed to shout even louder about FGM.
I disagree that it’s not a thing – circumcision, another barbarity, is indeed not a thing, but FGM is coming through louder and clearer all the time (note legislative action against it in the states).
The problem in getting it talked about is all too clear – no one wants to talk about women and sexual organs/pleasure – but that too is changing. (The other problem – degenerate moral relativism – is I think diminishing, and in any case is a pathology only of elites.) There’s something about 200 million women being carved up that concentrates the mind. Or should.