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
April 6th, 2020 at 10:16AM
Science is a process, and good science is the revision of conclusions on the basis of new evidence.
It appears that the epidemiologists are updating their projections on the basis of the information they have, subject to the caveats about selection bias in testing, margin of error, and what have you. But they’re being lumped in with the long-run climate modellers by some of the louder voices in political media, and that might not end well.
It’s not so much the political class who will come up with the exit strategy. Rather, you’ll see it happen, just like the virus itself, first a little bit, then all at once. Some kids decide to go to the playground. Late adolescents organize a beach volleyball game. The barkeeps on a popular strip decide to just open up, executive orders be d**ned.
April 6th, 2020 at 8:18PM
UD: “…while their scientific advisors – like Tony Fauci – stubbornly do the only thing they can do…”
How much more of 45/Kushner/Navarro’s BS will/can Fauci take? Being shushed and scolded by nincompoops has to take its toll.
I hope someone is checking to see who is investing in hydroxychloroquinone futures. I smell more profiteering.
Also wondering what OpEd economists, like the Nobel having ones, will have to say about today’s claims by one of the lessers of their tribe.
April 7th, 2020 at 9:47AM
Ravi: Already reports are emerging that suggest the prez has a financial interest in the malaria medication. Who knows.
As to how much Fauci can take: a lot, I think. He’s been around the block with political fools for decades and is still standing.