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
February 11th, 2021 at 5:41PM
My wife and I were taking a long, and fairly fast, walk the other day, and part of this came up through some relatively hard breathing. She said that large parts of the Trump base don’t understand exponential growth. I said that her real point was fair, but that, with regard to exponential growth, neither does a large part of most people. I think that the real difference is that the Haredi and Trump supporters can’t even (or don’t want to) identify the real experts to whom they should defer. Once it was almost any research scientist, without a serious commercial conflict of interest, and Walter Cronkite. Now they find it hard to chose between Fauci and some crazy Rebbe or a Trump Flunky drinking bleach with olive and swizzle stick. L’chaim. This is the main effect of the right wing’s decades-long war on any reasonable epistemology. None of us knows, or can know, very much first hand. So it is vital to learn to appraise sources.
February 12th, 2021 at 1:41AM
Greg: And yet the revolt against elites/experts has been well underway for decades. I also think cultic fundamentalist religions play a big role here. If you grow up believing all sorts of craziness is actually holy writ, and you depend for your truths on crazy holy leaders, you’ll believe absolutely anything. You’ll also be more vulnerable to charismatic con men (Trump, for example) since you’re practiced in believing in them. A lack of education (the national scandal of ultraorthodox yeshivas, for instance) also plays a role. Self-righteous paranoid collectives are unlikely to produce much beyond conspiracy thinking, reactionary politics, and violence.