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
March 7th, 2020 at 6:41PM
Have they revived Joseph de Maistre yet?
March 7th, 2020 at 7:24PM
L’Ecole de Maistre
March 10th, 2020 at 10:32AM
Thanks for the link to Waldstein. I keep up with Protestant and secular nut cases but the “beyond the fringe” Catholics are not usually on my radar. This man is crazy on so many levels. Having read some of his material, he lives in a fantasy world. The Roman Catholic Church taking over Europe? I don’t think so. Also he has the most romanticized vision of the past I have seen in a long time. However, what is really interesting is the way that others take him seriously. I have noted that in any intellectual cult ( Maoism, Ivy League English Departments, Lutheran Seminaries) the measure of their purity is the way in which they accept people into their group even if they advocate positions that none of the other members would ever publicly support. It shows what they are thinking inside. Scary.
March 10th, 2020 at 1:25PM
Bruce: You’re very welcome.
Scary; or funny. I have to say that reading A. Vermeule just made me sick, but reading Waldstein cured me. This beyond the fringe variant turns out to be Dungeons and Dragons Meets Lord of the Flies.
“Should we… BURN THEM AT THE STAKE?”
“Yes!”
“No!”
“Let’s take a vote.”
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Think “Comfy Chair.”
September 30th, 2020 at 10:36AM
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