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 11th, 2020 at 11:57AM
I always enjoy watching the classic The Dove (De Düva), linked here: https://youtu.be/L1TlAd6M-xU in which Inga has a particularly nice command of the accent.
April 11th, 2020 at 12:32PM
A timely reminder, Polish Peter. Just last night I was sampling Wild Strawberries, so the inspiration for The Dove was fresh in my mind… Thank you for the link!
April 11th, 2020 at 1:49PM
I’m partial to the raw grittiness of “The Immigrants”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE9AQhfz2fM
April 11th, 2020 at 4:42PM
Ravi: Hadn’t seen the Lampoon’s take on all this history – many thanks for the link. The abundance of diverse accents is head-spinning!
April 11th, 2020 at 9:06PM
I remember watching The Emigrants at the Baronet Theater in Bethesda when it came out. I vividly remember the grossest scenes of course. The throw up from the upper bunk on the ship sliding down the side of the wall next to a young emigrant boy below it, Liv Ullmann wiping her baby’s bare butt with a leaf as they walked along, the little girl dying with her stomach stretched out from eating all the uncooked rice and the ultimate scene when Liv beckons her husband to her bed although it will ultimately kill her. Haven’t seen that movie since it came out and it sure left a lasting impression on me as a 12 year old.
April 11th, 2020 at 10:53PM
Absolutely. Same here. I remembered tons from having watched it once in 1971. Exactly the same gross stuff.