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
January 7th, 2021 at 10:04AM
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/1/6/2006558/-The-Lincoln-Project-Weighs-In
A very good Lincoln Project video. In the past I might have said “a little breathless,” but I’ve just had a reminder of what happens when the sympathetic nervous system takes over while a would be dictator is trying to do the same.
I understand LP is working on a dooozy, featuring Josh Hawley with a raised fist in front of yesterday’s mob. Hope Teddy Boy does at least a Cameo.
Dante should remodel Mara Lago.
January 7th, 2021 at 11:06AM
Greg: Whoo! No one does it like the Lincoln Project, and the ad you just linked me to is – in light of yesterday – incredibly prescient.
And hate to sound as though I’m out for blood, but I cannot wait for LP’s full frontal attack on Hawley and Cruz, whose names I can barely type. They need to be removed from our common life so that we no longer have to mention them, let alone have anything to do with them. They need to be placed in very pleasant gated communities in West Virginia, allowed out once a day to buy more Trump banners for their bedrooms.
January 7th, 2021 at 11:38AM
I’d just go for the metaphorical blood* without even ironic apologies, after Trump’s gotten the quart or two of the real stuff he wanted all along – from Death Row and now the riot. I think a major part of his psychology is that he wants to be God, i.e. without limits. Has since he was devil-child. Hence the shooting on fifth avenue comment early in his “administration.” Transgressiveness is feature not bug, not simply something one does to facilitate stealing or getting huge amounts of political power. No, the only way to be God (not just a god; mythological gods had some limits) is to flatten resistance to whatever you might do. The only way to make sure you’re on the Golden Throne is to do the most outrageous stuff, and see no resistance. To lie as if your lying were life’s breath. In the early days he sometimes was able to restrain and restrict himself to smaller scale atrocities in order to pursue money and sadistic fun, but also to gather power for project God.
January 7th, 2021 at 11:42AM
Apologies for my duplicate comment. I tried to change my nom d’electron, after I hit “submit” and while the wheel of death spun. Please delete duplicate if possible.
January 7th, 2021 at 11:45AM
Done.