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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
December 11th, 2019 at 4:54PM
These are quite common in these parts, UD. In fact, in recent years, virtue-signaling has become largely the province of the lefties. It’s quite safe to do. Virtually all of the vandalism of political or religious signs is directed against non-liberal candidates and causes.
December 11th, 2019 at 6:02PM
Being pro-science is virtue signaling! Rofl! Try harder.
December 11th, 2019 at 7:43PM
Anon: Yes. I’d say much of the pro-religious world has long since cornered the market on virtue … ‘signaling’ isn’t quite strong enough.
Plenty of lefties virtue-signal, and it’s obnoxious; but friends of science? As Elmer Fudd would say, weawy?
December 12th, 2019 at 7:59AM
Alas, Anon doesn’t see the difference between supporting science (or, ahem, actually doing it) and putting a bumper sticker on a gas-guzzling 4WD SUV, which according to “Science” is heating up the world uncontrollably, ruining the kale crop, and melting Greta Thunberg like Margaret Hamilton in The Wizard of Oz.
December 12th, 2019 at 8:17AM
tp: LOL. Bethesda is so jammed with immense SUVs that that thought didn’t even occur to me.
By the way – I notice that in the “police activity” shows we’ve been enjoying on YouTube lately, the utterly broken down meth dealers and emaciated madmen and desperate swastika-face-tattoos career criminals that the cops stop often stumble out of high-end late model SUVs. Is America great, or what?
December 12th, 2019 at 1:17PM
Virtue-signaling bad, Vice tweeting and God bothering good.
Got it.
December 14th, 2019 at 3:54PM
You are not kidding, UD. Some of these tricked-out SUVs cost $45-$55K new and $30K used. Even the low-end narcotics biz must be lucrative. Mind you, most of them save considerable money by not insuring them. Locally, I think that the high-end crew cab pickup probably edges out these SUVs for the dealer crowd.
On the environmentally-conscious front, a local gal managed to get her Toyota Prius up to 110 mph on the main drag here before she either lost control or something broke. She blew something like a .20, and there were drugs, although not in dealer quantities.
December 14th, 2019 at 4:09PM
tp: Very encouraging news about the Prius! We have one – I’ll have to tell Mr UD.