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 25th, 2019 at 10:31AM
[…] tip to University Diaries for today's link […]
December 27th, 2019 at 4:32PM
I’m curious about what students make of “The Swimmer” these days. Is it really something more than yet another slam on the idio-vacuity of life in the alcoholic ‘burbs of the Eisenhower era?
December 27th, 2019 at 5:00PM
tp: I think it’s much more. The reason I mention Kafka is that I think that story is one of the few successful non-Kafka efforts to capture the fascinating and deadly quality we all share of sleepwalking through life, of truly existing- persisting – in denial. It’s brilliantly comic and farcical – our jovial, confident, stroke/stroke/stroke through the waves of life even as the whole house of cards (if I may mix metaphors) is in a state of utter collapse around us. Very few writers grasp this and evoke it honestly and fully. It’s particularly powerful in the affluent American context because we seem able to put so much between us and this condition of ruin. We heavily gate our golf course communities and keep the sunlight switched on all the time and just have the resources to make everything look so good… Cheever saw the wonderful, sharp, collision of these elements in swimming pool Connecticut and had the ability to write it up. Today, someone with Cheever’s gift should write a short story about Mr Sunlit Hero, Eddie Gallagher.
December 28th, 2019 at 3:24PM
This makes more sense. I only turned to the story after seeing the movie long ago on late-night TV, which seemed incomprehensible. I was trying to get some kind of baptism (i.e., failure of) symbolism out of it, given the pools and the light-connected name of the wife. If we had an “M” somewhere in Lucinda River, we might be able to pull “Lucid Dream” out of it.