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
November 15th, 2019 at 8:37AM
The Caliphate still has enclaves in various suburbs of Paris and London, as well as other non-American places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and of course, the NYT newsroom. She will surely find refuge in one of those places.
November 15th, 2019 at 9:02AM
tp: I’m sure you’ll find Caliphate sympathizers everywhere you mention except of course the NYT. And there’s nothing non-
American about any of the non-American places you mention.
If you want to go after a newspaper, the Washington Post is a better choice. But even there, the scandal of the dumb headline writer at the Wash Post is just that – a scandal about a dumb headline writer.
November 15th, 2019 at 9:06PM
“In 2014, Ms. Muthana withdrew from college and used her tuition money to pay for travel to Syria. Once there, she promoted ISIS’s ideology on social media and called on Muslims in America to carry out terrorist attacks. But since her capture she has apologized and said she wanted to come home, including in an interview with The New York Times.”
I wonder what I would have to do to get such sympathetic coverage by the Times?
November 15th, 2019 at 11:25PM
Easy, JND. Become a woman. From the Pieta photograph of Muthana in the NYT to the words missing from that quote about her, it’s all about the way we simply can’t deal with murderous women. The passage should read:
“In 2014, Ms. Muthana lied to her parents, withdrew from college, and stole the tuition money they gave her to pay for travel to Syria. Once there, she promoted ISIS’s ideology on social media and called on everyone in the world sympathetic to the Caliphate to kill large numbers of Americans and others in the most savage ways imaginable. She sang the praises of the Charlie Hebdo killers. She probably took part in the enslavement of Yazidi women. Since her surrender (she was among the last holdouts among the most fanatic ISIS followers) she has apologized and said she wanted to come home, in interviews with anyone who will listen. Throughout these interviews she steadfastly refuses to take personal responsibility for what she has done, blaming it all on other people.”
Whether it’s this chick or Marsha Edwards (about whom, as I predicted, we’ve not and will not hear a subsequent word – except for a recent report that she was perfectly sober when she pumped five shots into her defenseless son and then turned to her defenseless daughter and shot her three times), people seem constitutionally unable to treat savage women in the same way they treat savage men. It took Amy Bishop murders/bombings/beatings over decades for anyone to take her seriously as a crime suspect. Not until she made the mistake of leaving a few people alive in a mass killing of her fellow professors did anyone think to consider that this little thing might be a killer. Edwards was celebrated alongside her victims at a group funeral. I wonder how her victims would have felt about that.
So if you’d like to do the deed and enjoy the sympathy of the world, go full girl.