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
July 18th, 2020 at 10:33AM
Isn’t their a question of possible academic fraud in this case? Avital Ronell built her academic reputation, in large measure, on being lesbian and feminist. Well, how do she prove that, given the apparent gravitas gained by proclaiming such? Would her work have been less influential if she was straight, not a proclaimed feminist, however she defined that classification? It seems quite a few people have spent more time developing a mystique, rather than letting their work speak for itself. Could it be that NYU profited by marketing Avital Ronell as something she wasn’t.
I apologize if I’m coming across as hostile. It just came out that Mother Theresa’s org has been accused of baby selling, among other things. The Vatican had no problem using the MT myth for some damn good propaganda. So, excuse the hell outta me if I’m not feeling this “leading light” crap anymore…
July 18th, 2020 at 11:09AM
charlie: The baby selling story came out in 2018, from what I can tell – this is the most recent story about it I was able to find. One nun is still awaiting trial, so the story is ongoing. The scrutiny seems to have persuaded the MT nuns that they need to register w/ the government adoption agency, and stop denying children to single women who want to adopt.
All I can say is: Hitch, you would have loved this.
On Ronell: People are free to be as gender fluid as they like. But as to whether NYU has been intellectually well-served… that’s another question.
July 18th, 2020 at 11:34AM
Thanks for clarifying, UD.
Given all of the academic fraud your blog covers, from bogus CVs, pilfered research, stolen funds, it wouldn’t be a surprise if a uni would engage in reputation burnishing…