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
August 23rd, 2019 at 4:05PM
Was it George Bernard Shaw that said a belief in god was childish? To that point, invoking the peace from a god who will send you to eternal torture and suffering because he loves you is the creation of an imbecile. No shortage of that among politicians…
August 24th, 2019 at 12:34PM
He might have. He did write this though:
https://youtu.be/RH_qGZodZRI?t=2012
August 24th, 2019 at 1:03PM
Sorry, closed caption doesn’t work on that clip…
August 24th, 2019 at 1:29PM
Ravi: I love Shaw; most of all I love Heartbreak House. But after HH, I love Major Barbara. Thanks for the link.
August 24th, 2019 at 1:29PM
charlie: LOL. You’re right that the accents are challenging…
August 24th, 2019 at 3:59PM
UD: I’ve enjoyed HH but for me it drags for stretches. I’d like to see a full-up Man and Superman someday.
charlie: via https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3790/3790-h/3790-h.htm
JENNY [her eyes lighting up] … [To Price] Did you have a piece of bread?
PRICE [with unction] Yes, miss; but I’ve got the piece that I value more; and that’s the peace that passeth hall hannerstennin. [sic]
RUMMY [fervently] Glory Hallelujah!
August 24th, 2019 at 4:52PM
Ravi: HH is indeed the ultimate too-much-talk Shaw play; it even boasts an endless introduction, etc. Yet I love its theme of heedless Europe before the war (it has this in common with another incredibly talky work of art, Mann’s Magic Mountain), which Shaw plays for some great laughs along with the deadly seriousness. For sheer pleasure among Shaw’s works, I can read/watch again and again and again Arms and the Man – YouTube has two good productions (I really like this one)…
August 24th, 2019 at 7:18PM
I think the talky prize would have to go to Back to Methuselah which I’ve only read. Arms is often performed here but the best Shaw I’ve seen was a St. Joan performed by four actors for an audience of six in a San Fernando Valley industrial park. I am a few chapters into Magic Mountain but haven’t looked at it in months. Probably time to pick it up again.